No new snow being reported around the valley this morning. The windy and snowy conditions of yesterday are not with us this morning and all is calm once again in Hakuba. Visibility remained generally poor yesterday on the mountains though late afternoon some areas were treated with a short period of sunshine through the clouds. Very dramatic it was up on Happo, where I was enjoying the snow.

It is an overcast cloudy start to the day here this morning but visibility is good and we can see the mountain range backdrop to the village. It's just all grey, or is that silver? Silver sounds more cool. The forecast is telling me that we might see some sun later on. Doesn't seem likely as things are now, but as we all know conditions can quickly change in these here mountains. Light snow possible overnight and then snow again Friday night, so looks like we are going to get a topup of conditions once again just before the weekend.

It's a fairly mild feeling morning and actually we are into the positive numbers at the moment - just. Still keeping in the negatives higher up with Usagidaira reporting a temperature of around -5C now.

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Official snow depths and operations @ Thursday 14th February 2013 AM:

Hakuba Goryu:
No new snow reported by Hakuba Goryu.
Official snow depths:
Alps daira - 295cm;
Toomi - 155cm;
Iimori - 130cm

Hakuba 47:
No new snowfall reported by Hakuba 47.
Official snow depth:
Upper - 260cm
Lower - 180cm

Happo-one:
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira - 280cm
Nakiyama/Shirakaba - 130cm
Sakka - 130cm

Tsugaike Kogen:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 330cm
Lower slopes - 150cm

Hakuba Cortina:
No new snow reported by Hakuba Cortina since yesterday.
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 340cm
Lower slopes - 225cm

Hakuba Iwatake:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 175cm
Lower slopes - 75cm

Hakuba Sanosaka:
Official snow depth:
150cm

Hakuba Minekata:
120cm