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Hakuba Now: Friday 31st March 2017

  • Mar 31, 2017
  • 3 min read

Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano


New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 523cm

Posted on Friday 31st March 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.


Hello from Hakuba.


I was up at Hakuba 47 yesterday afternoon - the weather was fine, but it did get rather windy. It sounds like fairly strong winds continued overnight.


This morning there's lots of cloud around and rather limited visibility in some places by the looks of some of the webcams.


The forecasts how the chance of a bit of snow overnight tonight so things are keeping relatively cold as we head into April.


Today is the last day of the season for a bunch of lifts over at Tsugaike Kogen today, with more lifts around the valley closing at the end of this coming Sunday.


From Monday, we'll be left with just 47/Goryu, Happo-one and Tsugaike Kogen open through until Sunday 7th May.


Hakuba 47:

Hakuba 47 is reporting 0cm of fresh snowfall.

Official snow depth:

Upper: 305cm

Base: 125cm

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Hakuba 47 plans to be open until Sunday 7th May.


Hakuba Goryu:

Hakuba Goryu is reporting 1cm of fresh snowfall on upper areas.

Official snow depth:

Alps: 285cm

Toomi: 125cm

Iimori: 75cm

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Last nighta on 31st March.

Hakuba Goryu plans to be open until Sunday 7th May.


Hakuba Happo-one:

Hakuba Happo-one is reporting 0cm of fresh snowfall (Riesen quad top).

Official snow depth:

Usagidaira: 220cm

Kurobishi: 295cm

Lower: 80cm

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Hakuba Happo-one plans to be open until Sunday 7th May.

Planned closing dates for lifts are as follows:

Open until Sunday 2nd April

Kokusai Number 1 pair lift

Kitaone Number 3 pair lift

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Open until Sunday 9th April

Nakiyama Number 3 triple lift

Happo Riesen quad

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Open until Sunday 7th May

Gondola

Alpen quad lift

Grat quad lift

Usagidaira pair lift

Panorama pair lift

Hakuba Kokusai Number 3 pair lift

Kurobishi Number 2 quad lift

Kurobishi Number 3 pair lift

Skyline Number 2 pair lift


Tsugaike Kogen:

Official snow depth:

Tsuga-no-mori: 345m

Han-no-ki: 340cm

Maruyama: 115cm

Oya-no-hara: 120cm

Kane-no-naru-oka: 115cm

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Tsugaike Kogen plans to be open until Sunday 7th May.

Planned closing dates for lifts are as follows:

Open until 1pm on Friday 31st March

Maruyama Number 1 quad lift

Champion quad lift

Tsugaike Number 1 pair lift

Karamatsu High Speed pair lift

Kane-no-naru-oka Skyliner III

Kane-no-naru-oka Skyliner IV

Kane-no-naru-oka Number 11 Romance lift

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Open until Sunday 2nd April

Han-no-ki Number 3 quad lift

Tsugaike Chuo triple chair lift

Kane-no-naru-oka Skyliner II

Kane-no-naru-oka Romance lift

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Open until Sunday 9th April

Shirakaba quad

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Open until Sunday 7th May

Tsugaike Ropeway

Gondola

Tsuga Number 2 pair lift

Han-no-ki high speed pair lift


Hakuba Cortina:

Hakuba Cortina is reporting 0cm of fresh snowfall.

Part open until Sunday 2nd April.

Official snow depth:

Top: 340cm

Base: 200cm


Hakuba Norikura Onsen:

Part open until Sunday 2nd April.

Official snow depth:

Top: 115cm


Kashimayari:

Part open until Sunday 2nd April.

Official snow depth:

Top: 105cm



Hakuba Now 2016-2017 season

Data as of Friday 31st March 2017 Total snowfall at base so far 523cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 58 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 57cm (13th January) November 2016 snowfall 1cm reported on 1 day December 2016 snowfall 64cm reported on 11 days January 2017 snowfall 242cm reported on 20 days February 2017 snowfall 151cm reported on 16 days March 2017 snowfall 65cm reported on 10 days



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