Hakuba Now: Tuesday 9th February 2016
- Feb 9, 2016
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Hakuba region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 5cm
Snowfall at base this season 226cm
Posted on Tuesday 9th February 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Hakuba Now report can be found here.
Yesterday was a real beauty. Splendid Hakuba scenery was on tap for those who were here.
Now for some fresh snow!
And yes, it is snowing this morning with resorts already reporting up to 5cm on slopes and 5cm here in the village as well. Coming down nicely too, let's hope it can keep on coming. Moderate to heavy snowfall forecast for today and hopefully still snowing into tomorrow, so let's see how much we can get to report tomorrow morning.
The weekend forecast still shows some alarmingly warm temperatures along with rain due as the freezing line rises to above 3000m. Yikes. We can certainly be doing without any of that lot! Here's to the forecast changing, though I see that it's something that is due to be affecting large parts of Japan not just here.
Anyway today should be good, tomorrow should be better. Let's enjoy what we have. Take care out there.
Until tomorrow.
Hakuba 47:
Hakuba 47 is reporting 5cm of fresh snowfall.
All courses are open.
Part of the Tree Riding Zone is open.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba 47.
Official snow depth:
Upper: 210cm
Base: 95cm
Hakuba Goryu:
Hakuba Goryu is reporting 0-2cm of fresh snowfall earlier this morning.
All courses except Snow Diving are open.
The Toomi area will be open until 8:30pm tonight for 'nighta'.
Official snow depth
Alps: 225cm
Toomi: 105cm
Iimori: 105cm
Hakuba Happo-one:
Happo-one is reporting 5cm of fresh snowfall on mountain.
All open (apart from the Kurobishi Off Piste Area).
Happo Banks Snow Park is now open.
The lower Nakiyama area is open for 'nighta' every day until 9pm.
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira: 190cm
Nakiyama: 80cm
Sakka: 55cm
Hakuba Cortina:
Hakuba Cortina is reporting 0cm of fresh snowfall as of 7am, but it's snowing now!
All courses are open.
The Ikenota area will be open for 'nighta' until 8pm tonight.
Official snow depth:
Top: 200cm
Base: 124cm
Tsugaike Kogen:
All course areas are open.
Nighta at Kane-no-naru-oka on 13th February; at Karamatsu/Shirakaba on 13th/20th February and 5th/12th/19th March.
Note that the top Tsugaike Ropeway only opens from spring.
Official snow depth:
Tsuga-no-mori: 226cm
Maruyama: 90cm
Kane-no-naru-oka: 70cm
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field:
All of Village Side is now open but parts of the Mountain Side not yet available (Sonezawa, View A, View B).
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Iwatake.
Official snow depth:
Upper: 130cm
Lower: 50cm
Hakuba Norikura Onsen:
All courses except Snake are now open.
There is no 'nighta' at Hakuba Iwatake.
Official snow depth:
110cm
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 Tuesday 9th February 2016 Total snowfall at base so far 226cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 30 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 February 2016 snowfall 24cm reported on 4 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.