Good morning all.

Some fine blue skies in the morning yesterday and mostly cloudy in the afternoon. Is an overcast kind of start to the morning today, though with the thin cloud being thinner in places there's a bit of light blue on show too. Perhaps the sun might break through. (Just a guess).

There is no fresh cm of snowfall to report this morning - either from myself or from the ski resorts.

It was cold when I got up earlier, -4C on the thermometer outside my place; today temperatures of around +1C are expected in the village.

A few bits of news for you this morning:

The Tree Riding Zone areas at Hakuba 47 will be part open from this morning; that will be for the first time this season.

Over at Hakuba Happo-one, the lower Nakiyama South and Sakka areas are both now partly available. That means that you can now ski or board back down to base in those areas. Alternatively you can take the Gondola, Kokusai Number 1, Nakiyama Number 3 or Kita-one quad lift back down to base if you prefer.

Oh yes, here is the data table for today:

The information in this table is data reported by the ski resorts	New snowfall (lower)	New snowfall (upper)	TOTAL ACCUMULATION (UPPER)
Hakuba 47	0cm	0cm	266cm
Hakuba Cortina	0cm	0cm	213cm
Hakuba Goryu	0cm	0cm	269cm
Hakuba Happo-one	0cm	0cm	342cm
IMPORTANT: See below for an explanation of the above data

Have a good one... see you tomorrow!

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Individual ski resort information
This information is checked and manually adjusted each morning

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
- Kita-one
- Nakiyama South
- Olympic Course
- Sakka South
- Sakka North
- The base Nakiyama South and Sakka areas are now open
- You can also take the Gondola or other lifts back down

Official snow depth:
- Kurobishi: 180cm
- Usagidaira: 115cm
- Nakiyama: 25cm

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

Courses open:
- All courses are open now apart from the following:
- Cosmo River
- 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
- Champion 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
- Lower course through the forest cloded
- 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: 115cm
- 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

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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