Hakuba Now: Saturday 30th January 2016
- Jan 30, 2016
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 7cm
Snowfall at base this season 202cm
Posted on Saturday 30th January 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Ah yes it is a good morning!
With resorts around the valley this morning reporting 20-30cm on upper slope areas and a good 10cm reported from base areas, it should be great conditions out there early on.
Though the snow has stopped falling now, there's still a lot of cloud around and what looks like poor visibility on the webcams in some places - perhaps it's still snowing up there, or just that just gas/cloud? I will have to get up there myself to investigate!
The Happo-one image looks especially good right now with the lift rising above the sea of clouds hanging over the village (see photo below). On the subject of Happo-one, their 'Happo Banks' snow park is opening up from this morning with event-style things going on from 9:30am. It can be found over on the Kita One Number 3 area.
The forecast has cloud for the day today with the chance of more snow tomorrow night. Wind isn't an issue today and so resorts should be all open as normal, though actually I just noticed that a few courses at Tsugaike Kogen are closed due to 'adverse weather' - I'm presuming that is a visibility issue though not sure.
From Monday there isn't much snow on the forecast through until at least the later part of the week so we might have to make do. If temperatures remain low we should be good though.
Lots of people around this morning it will probably be busy out there.
Hope you have a great day, wherever you are.
Hakuba 47:
Hakuba 47 is reporting 20-25cm 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: 205cm
Base: 80cm
Hakuba Goryu:
Hakuba Goryu is reporting 10cm of fresh snowfall on lower areas and 20cm up top.
All courses except Snow Diving are open.
The Toomi area will be open until 9:30pm tonight for 'nighta'.
Official snow depth
Alps: 215cm
Toomi: 100cm
Iimori: 100cm
Hakuba Happo-one:
Happo Banks Snow Park opening from today.
All open apart from the Kurobishi Off Piste Area.
The lower Nakiyama area plans to be open for 'nighta' every day until 9pm.
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira: 190cm
Nakiyama: 80cm
Sakka: 60cm
Hakuba Cortina:
Hakuba Cortina is reporting 10cm of fresh snowfall in lower areas and 20-30cm in upper areas.
All courses are open.
The Ikenota area will be open for 'nighta' until 9pm tonight.
Official snow depth:
Top: 190cm
Base: 120cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
All course areas except Uma-no-se and Rinkan forest course are now open (they are apparently closed due to 'adverse weather').
Note that the top Tsugaike Ropeway only opens from spring.
Official snow depth:
Tsuga-no-mori: 230cm
Maruyama: 90cm
Kane-no-naru-oka: 70cm
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field:
Hakuba Iwatake is reporting 10cm 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: 60cm
Hakuba Norikura Onsen:
All courses except Snake and Expert are now open.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Iwatake.
Official snow depth:
85cm
Hakuba Sanosaka:
All of the courses are open.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Sanosaka.
Official snow depth:
100cm
Hakuba Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Saturday 30th January 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 202cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 26 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 |
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.