Hakuba Now: Thursday 28th December 2017
- Dec 28, 2017
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 24cm
Snowfall at base this season 203cm
Posted on Thursday 28th December 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Hakuba.
More snow to report this morning after a snowy and windy day yesterday. It's building up very nicely now.
The 'fresh snow' headlines from the resorts:
Hakuba Cortina: 40-50cm base; 50-70cm top - taking their official snow depth up to over 3m
Hakuba Iwatake: 20cm
Hakuba Happo-one: 20cm
Hakuba Goryu: 20-40cm
Hakuba 47: 20-30cm
I have 24cm of observed snowfall at base to add to the report too.
There is still a bit of wind around this morning which seems to be affecting mostly lifts at Happo-one and Tsugaike Kogen, but we're hoping that may ease off as often happens. Some forecasts even give us a chance of seeing a bit of sun later today. For now though it is still snowing.
Once things calm down, I expect pretty much everywhere to be fully (or at least almost fully) open and available.
A good way to end the year - with more potentially heavy snowfall due to be with us in the first few days of January.
Hakuba Now 2017-2018 season |
Data as of Thursday 28th December 2017 Total snowfall at base so far 203cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 19 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 32cm (27th December) November 2017 snowfall 47cm reported on 5 days December 2017 snowfall 156cm reported on 14 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.