It is a windy day today at 2m/s with temperatures between 2 degrees early on this morning and 8 degrees maximum for the afternoon. The rain has stopped for now and the sun is out however, the forecast from the evening onwards until the 15th November is rain with cloud cover which will dominate the skies.

Also, snow is expected to fall on Wednesday in between those rainy, cloudy days. We are looking forward to the chance of some fresh flakes over Hakuba this coming week, it will be fun to see how far down the mountain the snow line comes.

Below are the official opening dates of some ski resorts in Hakuba, all subject to snowfall of course. Hakuba 47 and Goryu have notices basically saying that they will open as soon as there's enough snow and they have done all their preparations. Let's hope they can all hit their planned opening dates.

Happo-one
December 8th 2012

Hakuba 47
December 1st 2012

Hakuba Goryu
December 1st 2012

Tsugaike Kogen
Tsugaike will open as soon as there is enough snow, after 23rd November

Hakuba Cortina
December 15th 2012

Hakuba Iwakura
December 20th 2012