Niseko Now: Tuesday 1st December 2020
- Dec 1, 2020
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Niseko region of Hokkaido
New snowfall at base 15cm
Snowfall at base this season 77cm
Posted on Tuesday 1st December 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Niseko Now report can be found here
Big massive dumps!
Well, not exactly massive, but I just wanted to use that phrase.
(I might dig it up again in the future when it's actually appropriate).
There wasn't much snow yesterday during the daytime, but it started snowing again in the evening and this morning I have 15cm of fresh snowfall to add to my reports. It is clearly colder this morning and while it was mostly cloudy while I have been putting this report together, the sun is actually breaking through at the moment and some blue sky too. That will likely be temporary as we are due more snow.
Today was the original planned opening for the Niseko Village area and then of course the official planned opening dates for Niseko Grand Hirafu and Niseko Hanazono follow on Saturday the 5th.
With regular snow on the forecast through Thursday, perhaps they will all get to open up on Saturday?
I will be here to tell you the latest.
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Going back to the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics 'ski area' story that I mentioned yesterday. From what I understand, both from my previous understanding and on reading this new article, the general public were never allowed on this ski area. Which seems a bit mean, almost cruel. No doubt there were reasons. I wonder how many people actually ended up being able to ski it. It would be on my 'if I had a time machine' place list though. It's a beautiful region by the way. I hear that upcoming on that site is the story of another ski area in Japan that the public never got to ski on.
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Planned opening dates:
Niseko Annupuri: Opening as soon as there is enough snow
Niseko Grand Hirafu: Saturday 5th December 2020
Niseko Hanazono: Saturday 5th December 2020
Niseko Village: Opening as soon as there is enough snow
Night skiing operations are planned from 19th December 2020 until 7th March 2021.
There is no night skiing at HANAZONO area.
Niseko Now 2020-2021 season |
Data as of Tuesday 1st December 2020 Total snowfall at base so far 77cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 7 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 32cm (10th November) November 2020 snowfall 62cm reported on 6 days December 2020 snowfall 15cm reported on 1 day |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Kutchan/Niseko. 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.