Hakuba Now: Friday 29th January 2016
- Jan 29, 2016
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 3cm
Snowfall at base this season 195cm
Posted on Friday 29th January 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
It was a fine day yesterday though after the beautiful blue sky start to the day, clouds started appearing from around lunchtime.
This morning it is snowing and there has been a few cm down at base areas with resorts generally reporting about 5cm on the mountain so far. Hakuba 47 are actually describing the snow up top this morning as having a 'creamy feel', rather than powder... not quite sure what to make of that one!
So it's snowing now and it is expected to be falling through the day, and heavily at times too. In fact there's currently a heavy snow warning out for the region so we could be on for a decent amount over the next 24 hours. That sounds good to me. I will be sure to let you know about it all in my report tomorrow.
For now resorts all appear to be open as planned, there's not much of a wind and it's not actually that cold - here in the village anyway where the temperature is currently hovering around 0C.
Until tomorrow!
Hakuba 47:
Hakuba 47 is reporting 5cm of fresh snowfall.
All courses are open.
The lower part of the Tree Riding Zone is now open.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba 47.
Official snow depth:
Upper: 180cm
Base: 60cm
Hakuba Goryu:
Hakuba Goryu is reporting 5cm of fresh snowfall.
All courses except Snow Diving are open.
The Toomi area will be open until 9:30pm tonight for 'nighta'.
Official snow depth
Alps: 205cm
Toomi: 95cm
Iimori: 95cm
Hakuba Happo-one:
Hakuba Happo-one is reporting 5cm of fresh snowfall.
All courses apart from the Kurobishi Off Piste Area are open.
The lower Nakiyama area plans to be open for 'nighta' every day until 9pm.
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira: 180cm
Nakiyama: 65cm
Sakka: 40cm
Hakuba Cortina:
Hakuba Cortina is reporting 3-5cm of fresh snowfall.
All courses except Giant are open.
The Ikenota area will be open for 'nighta' until 8pm tonight.
Official snow depth:
Top: 170cm
Base: 110cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
All course areas are now open.
Note that the top Tsugaike Ropeway only opens from spring.
Official snow depth:
Tsuga-no-mori: 208cm
Maruyama: 80cm
Kane-no-naru-oka: 70cm
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field:
Hakuba Iwatake is reporting up to 0cm of fresh snowfall.
Most of the Village Side is now open but parts of the Mountain Side not yet available (Dangan, Kamo4, East, View A, View B).
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Iwatake.
Official snow depth:
Upper: 140cm
Lower: 50cm
Hakuba Norikura Onsen:
All courses except Snake and Expert are now open.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Iwatake.
Official snow depth:
90cm
Hakuba Sanosaka:
All of the courses are open.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Sanosaka.
Official snow depth:
80cm
Hakuba Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Friday 29th January 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 195cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 25 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 131cm reported on 16 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.