Hakuba Now: Thursday 2nd January 2014
- Jan 2, 2014
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 40cm
Snowfall at base this season 199cm
Posted on Thursday 2nd January 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Wow.
There's a lot of fresh snow here in Hakuba. To say the least!
Here's the headlines from the resorts:
Happo-one: 50cm (Usagidaira); 80cm (Kurobishi)
Hakuba 47: 40-80cm
Hakuba Goryu: 20-60cm
Hakuba Cortina: 40-50cm
Tsugaike Kogen busting through (or to) the 3m snow depth mark.
Happo-one adding 50cm to the upper slopes snow depth.
80cm up at Hakuba 47! You could almost say that's... bottomless! ;)
Didn't quite see that coming.
I don't think anyone will have any problems finding some deep powder conditions to play in today. Just be careful!
It does look like Goryu have been 'dealing' with the snow on the upper slopes and so opening later than planned but apart from that there doesn't seem to be any disruption and thankfully there isn't enough wind to cause any issues with lifts. It's not even really that cold this morning.
Snow clouds forecast to ease later today and then we might get to see some sun tomorrow.
Fantastic.
Hakuba Goryu:
Reporting 20cm of new snowfall at Iimori, 40cm at Toomi and 60cm up top.
Upper - 295cm
Toomi - 170cm
Iimori - 120cm
Hakuba 47:
Reporting 40cm of new snowfall at base and 80cm (!) on upper areas.
Upper - 270cm
Lower - 120cm
Happo-one:
Reporting 40cm of new snowfall at Usagidaira and 80cm (!) on Kurobishi.
Usagidaira - 280cm
Nakiyama - 95cm
Sakka - 90cm
Hakuba Iwatake:
Upper - 225cm
Lower - 80cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
Tsuganomori - 300cm
Maruyama - 140cm
Kanenonaruoka - 140cm
Hakuba Cortina:
Reporting 40-50cm of new snowfall.
Upper - 270cm
Lower - 160cm
Hakuba Minekata:
100cm
Hakuba Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Thursday 2nd January 2014 Total snowfall at base so far 199cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 20 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 40cm (2nd January) November 2013 snowfall 35cm reported on 3 days December 2013 snowfall 122cm reported on 15 days January 2014 snowfall 42cm reported on 2 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.