Niseko Now: Sunday 25th November 2012
- Nov 25, 2012
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Niseko region of Hokkaido
New snowfall at base 10cm
Snowfall at base this season 76cm
Weather overview Cloud, blue skies opening up
Wind
Light
Temperature -2C base / -6C top
Visibility Good
Posted at 9:51am on Sunday 25th November 2012 This is an archived report. The latest Niseko Now report can be found here.
It is a cold cold morning here again.
Since my last report we have had about 10cm of new snowfall. Light snow was falling earlier on but it eased off and became somewhat overcast and cloudy. It's quite bright actually with quite a few areas of blue sky increasingly on show as well at the moment. It almost feels like it could really clear up today and it is certainly going to warm up more than it has been over the last few days today, rising into positive C numbers.
There's even a chance that we may see rain fall tomorrow in village, but we can probably avoid that on the mountain where it will hopefully be snowing instead. Let's just see what nature brings us. We should be back to 'very cold' mode come Tuesday.
So, this morning welcomes some of the Niseko Annupuri lifts to the season, so we now have one gondola and three lifts operating in Niseko:
Grand Hirafu - Ace No2 Quad (Center Four) and Ace No3 Pair lifts.
Annupuri - Gondola and Jumbo No3 pair lift.
8 hour lift tickets are 2000 yen for adults and 1000 yen for children and seniors, these special prices are valid until Friday 30th November.
Hirafu opened up the Furiko course yesterday and so gradually we are seeing more terrain opened up. Did I mention the snow conditions? Very nice... it's very exciting to think that we are still only in November.
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Data as of Sunday 25th November 2012 Total snowfall at base so far 76cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 6 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 20cm (19th and 21st November) November 2012 snowfall 76cm |
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.