Shiga Kogen Now: Wednesday 17th December 2014
- Dec 17, 2014
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Shiga Kogen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 30cm
Snowfall at base this season 140cm
Posted on Wednesday 17th December 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Shiga Kogen Now report can be found here.
It's snowing heavily in Shiga Kogen this morning as we expected. With wind blowing the light snow around it's difficult to put a number on it, but I'm going to go with 30cm and counting this morning. Some heroic under-reporting from the resorts with some adding 0-5cm to their snow depths. Regular readers will know how that frustrates your friendly reporter! I just don't get it. I'd be shouting out about it as much as I could if I were in the ski resorts shoes. But there you go, it seems unlikely that it will change.
Well anyway, conditions should be pretty deep out there this morning. With wind and poor visibility though, it's only for the brave!
A few resorts seeing lifts affected by the wind but for the moment things seem to be almost open as planned.
As I have said more of Shiga Kogen plans to open from this coming Saturday and this storm will have moved on well before then. Might even get clear and sunny on Friday which would be great.
OK so snow and wind forecast to continue all today and tomorrow.
Shiga Kogen Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Wednesday 17th December 2014 Total snowfall at base 140cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 9 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 30cm (14th and 17th December) November 2014 snowfall 10cm reported on 1 day December 2014 snowfall 130cm reported 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 Shiga Kogen. 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.