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Hakuba Now: Wednesday 26th January 2022

  • Jan 26, 2022
  • 3 min read

Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano


New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 379cm

Posted on Wednesday 26th January 2022 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.


So what do we have today. Well, early morning it was cloudy with some light snow falling in places, but as it approaches 9am there's an increasing amount of blue sky around and the sun is out. It is turning into a fine morning.


Like yesterday, it is going to be a relatively mild day with temperatures venturing into low + numbers.


The only snow being reported by ski areas is 5cm on the Usagidaira area of Happo-one and 3cm over at Hakuba Cortina. Oh hold on. 47 are reporting 5cm on their social media but not on their website. I think in some cases they can only go with 0cm or 5cm, so if it's 1cm or 2cm... that gets rounded down to become 0cm. (That is a guess based on observations checking things every day for many years. I'd love to know how it works in each case. Nerd alert).


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Total snowfall accumulation this season so far [*upper areas]

[As reported by official sources at time of this report]


Hakuba Goryu: 611cm

Hakuba 47: 565cm

Hakuba Happo-one: 515cm

Hakuba Cortina: 665cm

Tsugaike Mountain Resort: 655cm


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Hakuba Goryu

Reported snowfall:

- Upper: 0cm

Official snow depth:

- Upper: 330cm

- Toomi: 165cm


Hakuba 47

Reported snowfall:

- Summit: 0cm

- Lower: 0cm

Official snow depth:

- Top: 320cm

- Base: 185cm


Hakuba Happo-one

Reported snowfall:

- Kurobishi: 0cm

- Usagidaira: 5cm

- Nakiyama: 0cm

Official snow depth:

- Kurobishi: 345cm

- Usagidaira: 210cm

- Nakiyama: 125cm


Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field

Reported snowfall:

- Mountain Side: 0cm

- Village Side: 0cm

Official snow depth:

- Mountain Side: 190cm

- Village Side: 90cm


Tsugaike Mountain Resort

Reported snowfall:

- Upper: 0cm

Official snow depth:

- Upper: 310cm

- Lower: 110cm


Hakuba Norikura Onsen

Official snow depth:

- 320cm


Hakuba Cortina

Reported snowfall (24 hours):

- Summit: 3cm

- Lower: 3cm

Official snow depth:

- Top: 313cm

- Base: 206cm



Hakuba Now 2021-2022 season

Data as of Wednesday 26th January 2022 Total snowfall at base so far 379cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 33 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 54cm (14th January) November 2021 snowfall 29cm reported on 4 days December 2021 snowfall 130cm reported on 12 days January 2022 snowfall 220cm reported on 17 days



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