Hakuba Now: Thursday 3rd January 2013
- Jan 3, 2013
- 3 min read
Updated: Sep 1, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 3cm
Snowfall at base this season 253cm
Weather overview Moderate snow
Wind
Light-moderate
Temperature -
Visibility Fair to poor
Posted on Thursday 3rd January 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
The snow continued yesterday and this morning resorts around the valley are reporting up to 35cm of new snowfall since yesterday. The Deep Award goes to Hakuba Cortina this morning with that haul on it's upper slopes. Goryu is reporting 10cm on lower slopes and 30cm on upper slopes with Hakuba 47 reporting 25cm of new snow on the upper slopes. I think we can safely say that whichever resort you choose today you'll be rewarded with some fine snow conditions. Yey!
There hasn't actually been a huge amount of snowfall down at village level. The slightly heavier snow of last night changed to drier snow and it is still coming down now this morning. Probably 5-10cm of snow at base levels and just a few cm where I live. It's the snow on the slopes that matters, though, right?
It is a cold morning and not going to rise much about -5C today in the village, in fact we are forecast to get colder this afternoon and into tomorrow. It is all grey and white out there this morning with generally limited visibility.
Should be great out there!
With all the new snow, we have some rather dangerous avalanche conditions at the moment and venturing out to avalanche terrain is not recommended. Take care out there.
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Official snow depths and operations @ Thursday 3rd January 2013 AM:
Please note that resort lift operations are subject to change at any time.
Hakuba Goryu:
10cm on lower slopes and 30cm on upper slopes - new snow reported from Hakuba Goryu.
Official snow depths:
Alps daira - 250cm;
Toomi - 125cm;
Iimori - 100cm
Hakuba 47:
25cm of new snow reported on upper slopes by Hakuba 47 this morning.
Official snow depth:
Upper - 210cm
Lower - 95cm
Happo-one:
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira - 190cm
Nakiyama/Shirakaba - 80cm
Sakka - 90cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 270cm
Lower slopes - 80cm
Hakuba Cortina:
25-35cm new snow reported from Hakuba Cortina.
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 265cm
Lower slopes - 160cm
Hakuba Iwatake:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 145cm
Lower slopes - 70cm
Hakuba Sanosaka:
All lifts operating.
Official snow depth:
75cm
Hakuba Minekata:
70cm
Hakuba Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Thursday 3rd January 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 253cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 26 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 30cm (9th and 10th December) November 2012 snowfall 47cm reported on 4 days December 2012 snowfall 185cm reported on 19 days January 2013 snowfall 21cm reported on 3 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.