Hakuba Now: Saturday 27th February 2016
- Feb 27, 2016
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 5cm
Snowfall at base this season 282cm
Posted on Saturday 27th February 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
A good cold overnight here in Hakuba and a nice cold morning as well.
Resorts reporting up to 10cm of fresh snow on upper slopes after some good snowy conditions on the slopes yesterday.
This morning it's more of a bright, hazy and sunny start to the day in Hakuba and while it's a cold start it will be warming up somewhat during the day. Hopefully it'll be snowing by the end of the day though, but we might get a bit of drizzle before that. Perhaps a similar kind of story for tomorrow as well though as the weather people on the news said last night 'it's hard to read'. Tell me about it!
I'm looking forward to the decent snowfall that's forecast for Monday, let's see if that happens.
Looks like Hakuba Goryu have some kind of issue with their Gondola this morning meaning it's not running this morning.
Anyway, have a great weekend wherever you are.
Hakuba 47:
Hakuba 47 is reporting 10cm of fresh snowfall this morning.
All courses are open and all of the Tree Riding Zone is open.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba 47.
Official snow depth:
Upper: 220cm
Base: 120cm
Hakuba Goryu:
Hakuba Goryu is reporting 0-5cm of fresh snowfall this morning.
All courses are generally open except Snow Diving and Adventure.
However there seems to be a problem with the Gondola this morning meaning the top area is closed.
The Toomi area will be open until 8:30pm tonight for 'nighta'.
Official snow depth
Alps: 220cm
Toomi: 110cm
Iimori: 100cm
Hakuba Happo-one:
All courses/areas open.
The lower Nakiyama area is open for 'nighta' every day until 9pm.
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira: 200cm
Nakiyama: 60cm
Sakka: 50cm
Hakuba Cortina:
Hakuba Cortina is reporting 5cm of fresh snowfall this morning.
All courses open except Itadaira Ridge.
The Ikenota area will be open for 'nighta' until 9pm tonight (8pm on weekdays).
Official snow depth:
Top: 188cm
Base: 115cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
All course areas are open.
Nighta at Karamatsu/Shirakaba on 5th/12th/19th March.
Note that the top Tsugaike Ropeway only opens from spring.
Official snow depth:
Tsuga-no-mori: 242cm
Maruyama: 75cm
Kane-no-naru-oka: 60cm
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field:
Parts of the Mountain Side not open (Sonezawa, Dangan, Kamo 4, Five Side, View A, View B).
An event is currently being held on Kamoshika Pocket, Big Bahn and Up Bahn areas of the Village Side.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Iwatake.
Official snow depth:
Upper: 120cm
Lower: 50cm
Hakuba Norikura Onsen:
All courses apart from Snake are open.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Iwatake.
Official snow depth:
110cm
Hakuba Sanosaka:
All of the courses are open.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Sanosaka.
Official snow depth:
75cm
Hakuba Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Saturday 27th February 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 282cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 36 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 38cm (20th January) November 2015 snowfall 10cm reported on 1 day December 2015 snowfall 54cm reported on 8 days January 2016 snowfall 138cm reported on 17 days February 2016 snowfall 80cm reported on 10 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Hakuba. The 'new snowfall' number represents the amount of snow measured since the previous report. All opinions are those of the individual reporters. Information regarding ski area operations is manually checked every morning and is believed to be correct at the time of the report.