Resorts around the village and Otari this morning are reporting new snowfall - 10cm on the upper slopes at Goryu, 5-10cm at 47, 10-15cm at Cortina... a nice topup to see conditions remain decent out there today. Snow was falling until around 7:30am this morning and there was some snow down on the ground as well - that has been drying up as the clouds make clearings and some blue sky is appearing. Looks like it will end up being a fine and perhaps generally sunny day.

Last night temperatures dipped to around -4 degrees in the village and right now are around -2 degrees with a high of perhaps +1 later on, so conditions should keep good for the day.

It doesn't look like the same can be said about tomorrow as we are going to see it get much warmer - up to around +7 degrees in the daytime. We are likely to see rain in the village on Friday as well but there's more positive news with snow likely from Friday to Monday on the mountains and potentially a decent amount of snow coming down from the skies as well. Hopefully by Saturday we will also be seeing snowfall lower down in the village as well. You know the drill - fingers crossed etc.

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Official snow depths and operations @ Wednesday 21st March 2012 AM:

Hakuba Goryu:
10cm of new snowfall on the upper slopes this morning (0cm lower slopes). All lifts and runs scheduled to be open today.
Official snow depths:
Alps daira - 260cm;
Toomi - 140cm;
Iimori - 100cm

Hakuba 47:
5-10cm of new snowfall at 47 this morning. All courses open, all lifts except Line D operating.
Official snow depth:
Upper - 235cm
Lower - 155cm

Happo-one:
Ski lifts/courses:
All lifts apart from Usagidaira, Happo No1 pair, Central pair and Shirakaba No1 moving today.
Official snow depth:
Usagidaira - 210cm;
Sakka - 70cm;
Nakiyama - 80cm.

Tsugaike Kogen:
Official snow depth:
Upper slopes - 280cm
Champion - 200cm

Hakuba Cortina:
10-15cm of fresh snowfall at Cortina this morning. All planned lifts and most courses open. No5 and No7 lifts now closed.
Official snow depth:
Upper - 340cm
Lower - 215cm

Hakuba Norikura:
Official snow depth:
170cm

Hakuba Iwatake:
Village Side (lower slopes) plan to be open until 1st April (upper slopes open well beyond that date).
Official snow depth:
Upper - 160cm
Lower - 70cm

Hakuba Sanosaka:
135cm

Hakuba Minekata:
Now closed for the season