Naeba Now: Saturday 22nd December 2012
- Dec 22, 2012
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Naeba region of Niigata
New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 148cm
Weather overview Cloud, sleet, snow
Wind
OK
Temperature -
Visibility Fair
Posted on Saturday 22nd December 2012 This is an archived report. The latest Naeba Now report can be found here.
It is a mild morning here but happily we seem to have avoided rain and this morning light (wet) sleet/snow is falling, though there's no new cm to report. Hopefully rain will hold off as temperatures rise a bit during the day, though we can't be surprised if we do get a bit, especially at base.
Naeba has of course been part open for a while already but today is their official "Grand Open", the most important bit of that being that most of the courses on the mountain are now open to ski and board down. A few exceptions mostly the steeper slopes on the mountain.
Nighta also starts properly from today at Naeba (there is never any nighta at Kagura of course), and tonight will be followed by some excite fireworks. Sugoi!
Over to Kagura when I was there earlier it was raining lightly at Mitsumata base, but the resort is reporting light snow higher up.
Go high, is the advice for the day.
Tomorrow might start off cloudy or fine but that potentially heavy snowfall is still due overnight into the week. Would be good.
Official resort snow depth:
Naeba - 100cm
Kagura - 200cm
Naeba and the Kagura resort areas are now all mostly open.
Naeba Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Saturday 22nd December 2012 Total snowfall at base so far 148cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 9 days Most snowfall observed on 1 day 60cm (10th December) November 2012 snowfall 3cm observed on 1 day December 2013 snowfall 145cm observed on 8 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.