Niseko snow report, Thursday 6 December 2012: 12.5 cm

New snow, last 24 hours
12.5 cm
At the stake: just outside Hirafu village, ~227 m
Temperature at 07:00
1°C
Season so far
186.5 cm
Base depth
70 cm
resort figure
Peak depth
170 cm
resort figure

12.5cm of fresh snow as fallen in the last 24hrs in Hirafu Village. At 07:00 today the temperature was 1°c.

Yesterdays consistent snow fall provided a welcome top up of snow. This morning is reasonably warm with strong winds blowing but later today the temperature is set to drop with cold temperatures and consistent snowfall predicted for the next week.

Snow crystals, 2 December 2012

Since publishing this mornings snow report at 8:00 a blizzard has hit the area at 8:15 with very strong winds and heavy snow fall. Only the lower lifts are running in Hirafu and Niseko Village.

This day in other years

A year earlier: 18.5 cm.

The week around it

62.5 cm across these 7 reports.

The 2012/13 season day by day