Hakuba Now: Tuesday 27th November 2012
- Nov 27, 2012
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 31, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 20cm
Snowfall at base this season 45cm
Weather overview Snow
Wind
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Temperature -
Visibility Poor
Posted on Tuesday 27th November 2012 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Good morning from a very winter-like and snowy Hakuba. There's not much to see this morning actually as it's an almost total white-out, where I am anyway. The cars are moving slowly on the roads as the people who still haven't changed their tyres to snow tyres suddenly regret leaving it so late!
There's a good 10-20cm of snow to report this morning, perhaps more in places. Close to 20cm outside my door and it is still coming down now so if this continues during the day we should be feeling much more positive after that wet and dreary day that we had yesterday. It's still relatively wet snow, but forecast to get drier as the day goes on.
Goryu are reporting 15cm of fresh snow on their slopes. 47 are actually closed once again - the rain yesterday did it's damage that the snow so far hasn't been able to fix up, but with the snow coming down as it it that will probably soon change once again.
As much as I'd like to tell you that this snow is due to continue for a week.... it's not! Tomorrow we will very probably see lots of the sun and it will be much warmer than today. It will probably be the weekend before we can realistically expect any real new snowfall. So come on, let's have lots today please.
Early season is so complicated, ne?
Resorts currently part open & operating lifts:
Happo-one:
Gondola
Usagidaira pair
Kurobishi No2 quad
Hakuba Goryu:
Gondola
No1 pair lift
Tsugaike Kogen:
Gondola
Hannoki pair
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Data as of Tuesday 27th November 2012 Total snowfall at base so far 45cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 3 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 20cm (27th November) November 2012 snowfall 45cm reported on 3 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.