Good morning from Hakuba.

More snow on the mountains with 5-10cm being reported by the resorts:

The information in this table is data reported by the ski resorts	New snowfall (lower)	New snowfall (upper)	TOTAL ACCUMULATION (UPPER)
Hakuba 47	0cm	5cm	551cm
Hakuba Cortina [CLOSED]	-	-	573cm [at closing]
Hakuba Goryu	0cm	10cm	610cm
Hakuba Happo-one	-cm	5cm (Kurobishi) 10cm (Usagidaira)	822cm
IMPORTANT: See below for an explanation of the above data

Even a bit of a dusting in some close to base areas too.

You need to get the lifts back down to base at Happo-one now. They now have their Riesen Grat, Kurobishi, Usagidaira and Panorama courses scheduled to be open. You need to get the Gondola back down to base.

Unfortunately wind seems to be affecting lifts at the start of the day - at all of the resorts. Best check with them before making a move.

The sun is forecast to make an appearance later in the day today and for the day tomorrow, when it will also be calmer and warmer.

PS The Toomi base run at Goryu is going to be open today - probably due to the upper areas being closed at the start of the day due to wind

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Individual ski resort information
The below information is checked from official sources and manually adjusted each morning.

Hakuba Happo-one

Pperating lifts (planned):
- Grat quad
- Alpen quad
- ADAM Gondola
- Panorama pair
- Kurobishi 2 quad

Courses open (planned):
- Riesen Grat
- Kurobishi
- Usagidaira
- Panorama

Official snow depth:
- Kurobishi: 165cm
- Usagidaira: 130cm
- Nakiyama: -cm

Hakuba 47

All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are operating (planned):
- Pair Line D (usually only operates when Gondola not operating)

Courses open (planned):
- All main courses now open
- Restrictions on the winding lower course: beginners should take the gondola down

Official snow depth:
- Top: 175cm
- Base: 40cm

Hakuba Goryu

Operating lifts (planned):
- Gondola, top Alps Number 1 and 3 pair lifts and Toomi quad lift operating
- Other lifts are now closed

Courses open (planned):
- All of the upper area (apart from Champion Expert) and the main Toomi run are open
- The lower Iimori area is now closed

Official snow depth:
- Alps: 185cm
- Toomi: 50cm
- Iimori: -cm

Tsugaike Kogen

Operating lifts (planned):
- Gondola
- Han-no-ki pair
- Tsuga Number 2 pair
- Tsugaike Ropeway
- Other lifts now closed
- The top Tsuga-no-mori and Han-kou areas remain open

Official snow depth:
- Tsuga-no-mori (upper): 190cm
- Han-no-ki: 170cm

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Photos today (below):

- Hakuba Happo-one [Usagidaira]
- Hakuba Happo-one [Usagidaira]
- Hakuba 47
- Tsugaike Kogen [upper Tsuganomori area]
- Tsugaike Kogen [lower Kane-no-naru-oka area]
- Hakuba Iwatake
- Looking towards Hakuba Iwatake and Hakuba Happo-one

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About the data in the above ‘snowfall as reported by ski resorts’ table
* The table within the above report contains data that is published by individual ski resorts
* The data shown is the amount of snowfall that the ski resorts are themselves reporting each 24 hour period on the upper areas of their mountain
* The source ‘new snowfall’ data and ‘total accumulation’ data is not updated at the same time
* The ‘new snowfall’ data is updated in the morning
* The ‘accumulation’ data is apparently updated/refreshed at midnight
* That means that there is a time lag between the two numbers being updated
* We manually check and update the data just before we publish each Hakuba Now report - so the data in each Hakuba Now report table is what is available at that time
* Any odd-looking numbers are due to the source data. We are not responsible for and have no control over the data. We are simply sharing the data with you
* Just to be extra clear, unlike our own ‘observed snowfall’ data from base that we show at the top of each report, the data in the table is not an independent observation by SnowJapan
* A more in-depth introduction and explanation can be found in this report