Madarao Now: Saturday 17th December 2016
- Dec 17, 2016
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Madarao region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 11cm
Snowfall at base this season 108cm
Weather overview Snow
Wind Light
Temperature -
Visibility Decent
Posted on Saturday 17th December 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Madarao Now report can be found here.
A good morning to everyone reading from here in Madarao Kogen, where it is officially the first day of the season. Always an exciting time and happily this year we have had decent snowfall over the last few weeks enabling the resort to open as planned.
Light snow is falling at the moment and conditions are looking good. I'll be out there myself in a short while to test it all out.
For the moment, here is what is open on this first day of the season:
- Number 1 lift
- Number 2 quad lift
Lift tickets will be available at the special price of 2000 yen for adults and 1000 yen for children (elementary school age). Those lower prices will be available until Thursday 22nd December.
It looks like the snow clouds are going to ease off later today and tomorrow we might see sunshine in the region. In fact, it's looking like there's going to be a run of a few days of fine weather - along with some generally milder conditions mid to late week. Got to keep an eye on that as we obviously want things to remain cold and more snow.
But anyway, it should be a fine first weekend of the season.
Here's to a long and snowy season. Hope to see you here.
Madarao Now 2016-2017 season |
Data as of Saturday 17th December 2016 Total snowfall at base 108cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 11 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 24cm (on 11th December) November 2016 snowfall 9cm reported on 4 days December 2016 snowfall 99cm reported on 7 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Madarao. 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.