Hakuba Now: Thursday 31st December 2015
- Dec 31, 2015
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 64cm
Posted on Thursday 31st December 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Hakuba on this New Years Eve.
There's no new snow to report to you this morning though I hear earlier on it was snowing very lightly higher up. Lots of blue skies around now though with just a few small clouds lingering. A fine morning weather wise, and happily keeping cold.
The forecasts do have us down for snow today, so it could cloud over again any time and hopefully we will be getting snowed on later.
There will be lots of New Years Eve celebrations going on tonight so while we don't want the weather to hinder those, we of course all want snow to fall. Come New Year, we're going to be back to 'warmer than normal' conditions it looks like which is not what we want to be hearing. Definitely a lot of that this season so far.
But back to today and this lovely morning. Lots of people around, hopefully the resorts are coping keeping them happy!
I hope everyone can enjoy tonight - whether you are reading this from Hakuba or from the other side of the world. All the best, and I'll be back with you tomorrow morning.
Hakuba 47:
Hakuba 47 is reporting 0cm of fresh snowfall.
All courses apart from Route 7 are now open.
Lower Route 1 not recommended for beginners as there's not the best snow conditions.
Tree Riding Zone not yet open for the season.
Planned lifts:
Gondola
Line AB
Line C
Line E
Official snow depth
Upper: 90cm
Base: 10cm
Hakuba Goryu:
Hakuba Goryu is reporting 0cm of new snowfall.
Upper areas, the main Toomi course and the Soft Cream course in the Iimori area are open.
Nighta on Toomi 31st December - 3rd January.
Planned lifts:
Telecabin Gondola
Alps Number 1 pair lift
Alps Number 2/4 pair lift
Alps Number 3 pair lift
Toomi Sky Four lift
Milky Four lift
Official snow depth
Alps: 120cm
Toomi: 40cm
Iimori: 25cm
Hakuba Happo-one:
Usagidaira, Kurobishi, Panorama, Skyline and Kita One areas are open - lower course areas are still closed.
Planned lifts:
Adam Gondola
Alpen quad lift
Usagidaira pair lift
Happo Riesen quad
Nakiyama Number 3 triple
Kurobishi Number 2 quad lift
Kurobishi Number 3 pair lift
Skyline Number 2 pair lift
Kokusai Number 1 lift
Kokusai Number 3 lift
Panorama pair lift
Kita One quad lift
Kita One Number 3 pair lift
Official snow depth
Usagidaira: 70cm
Nakiyama: 10cm
Sakka: 10cm
Hakuba Cortina:
Hakuba Cortina reporting 0cm of fresh snow.
Courses open - Ikenota, Ikenota Forest (upper), Mt Hieda Forest, Mt Hieda 1 (lower), Itadaira, Itadaira Forest, Ipponmatsu.
Planned lifts:
Number 1 pair lift
Number 2 quad lift
Number 4 pair lift
Number 5 pair lift
Official snow depth
Top: 75cm
Base: 40cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
Large sections of Tsugaike Kogen are now at least part open.
Planned lifts:
Most lifts now operating at Tsugaike Kogen
Official snow depth
Tsuga-no-mori: 122cm
Kane-no-naru-oka: 30cm
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field:
The North, East and part of South runs are open.
Planned lifts:
Noah Gondola
3Sen North
4Sen Line East
5Sen South
Line Lift
Official snow depth
Upper: 50cm
Lower: 10cm
Hakuba Norikura Onsen:
Most of the lifts are operating and 7 courses are now open.
Kashimayari:
Planned lifts:
Number 1 quad lift
Number 2 pair lift
Number 7 pair lift
Hakuba Sanosaka:
Part open with the Number 1 triple lift operating
Hakuba Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Thursday 31st December 2015 Total snowfall at base so far 64cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 9 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 15cm (4th December) November 2015 snowfall 10cm reported on 1 day December 2015 snowfall 54cm reported on 8 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.