Naeba Now: Sunday 17th February 2013
- Feb 17, 2013
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 21, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Naeba region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 15cm
Snowfall at base this season 633cm
Weather overview Snow
Wind
Moderate to strong
Temperature -
Visibility Variable
Posted on Sunday 17th February 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Naeba Now report can be found here.
What a weekend this is turning out to be.
This morning Kagura say they got another 50cm. I'm not up there to confirm that with my own eyes, but I'll go with it. So, added to the 40-50cm from yesterday, I make that up to 1m in the last 2 days. That's impressive. What's more.... it's all going to be open! Get on up there, it's going to be renamed Paradise today I reckon. OK, so that might be cheesy, but you know what I'm getting at. That official snow depth curiously is not moving again today. I always get the feeling that Kagura don't want that number to rise above 4m. (Watch it do that by tomorrow, now I have said that!)
Here at base in Naeba, it's more like 15cm on the ground, though the resort is reporting 20cm. Still, a nice new layer of snow to add to what we got yesterday and so conditions are good.
It is still snowing early on this morning but the forecast tells us to expect conditions to clear up, it might even end up sunny by this afternoon.
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Official resort snow depth:
Naeba - 300cm
Kagura - 380cm
Naeba Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Sunday 17th February 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 633cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 46 days Most snowfall observed on 1 day 60cm (10th December) November 2012 snowfall 3cm observed on 1 day December 2013 snowfall 219cm observed on 15 days January 2013 snowfall 283cm observed on 19 days February 2013 snowfall 128cm observed on 11 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Naeba. 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.