Hakuba Now: Tuesday 5th February 2013
- Feb 5, 2013
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 387cm
Weather overview Cloud
Wind Light
Temperature -
Visibility Generally poor
Posted on Tuesday 5th February 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Just a sprinkling of snow this morning in the village, with resorts around Hakuba and Otari reporting up to 10cm on the upper slopes.
A better picture than yesterday for sure. It did end up raining and we got wet unfortunately. Quickly onto today and we have that slight dusting of new snow along with a colder start to the day. There'll be some hard and icy conditions out there this morning I would think.
It's a mostly cloud morning with all but the lower parts of the mountains covered in cloud so generally poor visibility higher up on the upper slopes. Just cloudy though with nothing falling from them and as I said a colder temperature of around -3C in as of 9am. -8 degrees up at Usagidaira on Happo-one but only a slight wind at the moment.
Snowfall is likely tonight and into tomorrow morning and we're likely to have snow showers on and off over the next few days. Later in the weekend some decent snowfall is on the forecast so a good idea to keep an eye on that.
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Official snow depths and operations @ Tuesday 5th February 2013:
Hakuba Goryu:
0cm of snow reported on lower slopes, 5cm up top from Hakuba Goryu this morning.
Official snow depths:
Alps daira - 280cm;
Toomi - 140cm;
Iimori - 115cm
Hakuba 47:
3cm of new snowfall reported by Hakuba 47 this morning.
Official snow depth:
Upper - 220cm
Lower - 170cm
Happo-one:
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira - 240cm
Nakiyama/Shirakaba - 80cm
Sakka - 90cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 280cm
Lower slopes - 140cm
Hakuba Cortina:
5-10cm of new snow reported by Hakuba Cortina this morning.
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 300cm
Lower slopes - 170cm
Hakuba Iwatake:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 160cm
Lower slopes - 75cm
Hakuba Sanosaka:
Official snow depth:
135cm
Hakuba Minekata:
90cm
Hakuba Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Tuesday 5th February 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 387cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 40 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 30cm (9th and 10th December, 25th January) November 2012 snowfall 47cm reported on 4 days December 2012 snowfall 185cm reported on 19 days January 2013 snowfall 149cm reported on 14 days February 2013 snowfall 6cm 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.