Good morning everyone.

Snow falling in the afternoon and evening yesterday - and falling very nicely at times in the evening... everyone egging it on!

Alas it just doesn't seem to want to keep going and continuing and really building up.

Still, result. I have just over 4cm to report from base and we have another 5-10cm being reported from around the resorts this morning. Here are the numbers:

The information in this table is data reported by the ski resorts	New snowfall (lower)	New snowfall (upper)	TOTAL ACCUMULATION (UPPER)
Hakuba 47	5cm	10cm	256cm
Hakuba Cortina	5cm	10cm	203cm
Hakuba Goryu	5cm	10cm	259cm
Hakuba Happo-one	?cm	15cm	327cm
IMPORTANT: See below for an explanation of the above data

(It would seem that according to the ski resorts, the snow arrives in units of 5cm. I'd live it to be in units of 1cm, or at least know how those numbers are in more details...but it is the way it is!)

Sounds like it was rather windy overnight on mountain and so there will be areas of more and less up there. Should be some nice conditions to find.

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Hakuba Happo-one

Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:
- Kurobishi Number 3 pair
- Nakiyama Number 2 pair
- Shirakaba Number 1 pair
- Shirakaba Number 2 pair
- Central pair
- Sakka Number 2 pair
- Sakka Number 3 triple

Courses open:
- Panorama
- Usagidaira
- Kurobishi
- Skyline
- Riesen Slalom
- Kita-one 3
- Nakiyama South also part open so you can ski/board back to base over on that side area
- Otherwise, take lifts back down to base

Official snow depth:
- Kurobishi: 180cm
- Usagidaira: 115cm
- Nakiyama: 30cm

Hakuba 47

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

Courses open:
- All main courses now open
- Tree Riding Zones not yet available

Official snow depth:
- Top: 145cm
- Base: 50cm

Hakuba Goryu

Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:
- Toomi Number 2 pair
- Cosmo Four

Courses open:
- All courses are open now apart from the following:
- Cosmo River
- Sunny Way
- Straight Whiskey
- Snow Diving
- Adventure

Official snow depth:
- Alps: 145cm
- Toomi: 65cm
- Iimori: 50cm

Tsugaike Kogen

Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from the lifts noted below are normally operating:
- Han-no-ki Number 4
- Tsuga-no-mori Number 1
- Han-no-ki Number 3 quad
- Han-no-ki Number 2 pair
- Han-no-ki Number 1 quad
- Kane-no-naru-oka Skyliner I
- Kane-no-naru-oka Skyliner IV
- Kane-no-naru-oka Number 11 romance

Courses open:
- Most course areas are now at least part open
- DBD not available yet

Official snow depth:
- Tsuga-no-mori: 140cm
- Maruyama: 40cm
- Kane-no-naru-oka: 15cm

Hakuba Cortina

Operating lifts:
- All lifts are operating

Operating courses:
- A few courses restrictions (Giant on hold currently)

Official snow depth:
- Top: 120cm
- Base: 55cm

Hakuba Valley Kashimayari
- All lifts are operating

Hakuba Norikura Onsen

Operating lifts:
- All lifts apart from Number 7 and 10 are operating

Hakuba Iwatake Snow Field

Operating lifts:
- Gondola
- 4sen East
- 4sen North
- View2
- 5sen South

Hakuba Sanosaka

Operating lifts:
- All four lifts are operating

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Photos today (below):

- Hakuba Happo-one [Usagidaira]
- Hakuba Happo-one [Usagidaira]
- Hakuba Goryu [base area]
- 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