It is a beautiful early morning here in Hakuba.

Blue skies all around, sunny. It's going to be warm-ish as well, the local forecast saying that a high of about 13 degrees possible this afternoon.

Rain is likely tomorrow, perhaps heavy at times.

The good news is that things continue to look promising for snow from late Monday onwards. Temperatures are going to drop right back down to 'winter-like' and while it might be raining Monday, through the night into Tuesday snow looks likely. Yey. Without getting too excited for now, we can definitely look forward to that.

Remember that on the resort pages of SnowJapan there is a 6-day forecast that is updated multiple times daily. Just check out the big blue tab at the top of the resort pages called Weather Info:

Happo-one forecast example

I'm going to be out of Hakuba for the weekend - probably my last full weekend away until May - which means that my next report will be on Monday, when hopefully I'll be bringing news of impending heavy snowfall! Well that would surely be nice. And I'll have the prospect of posting reports every single day for over 5 months.

In the meantime, I hope that you have a fine weekend wherever you may be.

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Planned opening dates :

Hakuba 47 - as soon as there's enough snow
Hakuba Goryu - as soon as there's enough snow
Happo-one - as soon as there's enough snow
Tsugaike Kogen - as soon as there's enough snow
Kashimayari Sports Village - early December
Hakuba Sanosaka - mid December
Hakuba Norikura Onsen - mid December
Hakuba Cortina - Saturday 13th December
Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field - Friday 19th December