With the holiday season approaching, ski resorts in Europe and Japan are grooming their pistes and guest houses are decorating their rooms ready to welcome guests for a snowy, white Christmas and New Year holiday.
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| Nozawa Onsen 17.12.15 - Nozawa Onsen webcam |
We had a mixed bag of weather across mainland Japan over the past week with some sunny days, some rain and some flakes of snow.
It was a fine start to the week, becoming cloudy and wet on Tuesday and Wednesday. Snow has arrived overnight into Thursday morning on both Honshu and Hokkaido.
Niseko - 45cm bottom/145cm top.
Zao Onsen - 5cm@Base, 25cm up high, with skiing limited to the Chuo and Utopia areas only
Naeba/Kagura - no snow
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| Happo One 16.12.15 - Happo One Facebook |
Nozawa Onsen - 0cm@Base, 15cm at Yamabiko, the resort is not open yet
Myokokogen - no snow, no resorts open yet
Hakuba - Happo One - 0cm@Base, 40cm at Usagadaira
Dynaland - limited natural snow
Snow is expected to continue to fall into the weekend in Hokkaido, and on and off in Honshu.
FRANCE
Sunny fine days continued until Tuesday when it became almost two weeks without snow for most ski resorts. The good start at the beginning of the month has not been followed through.
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| Chamonix Balme 16.12.15 - Chamonix.com |
Chamonix (Grands Montets) 25cm@1972m, 3/16 pistes open
Val d'Isere 32cm@1850m, 71/166 pistes open
Les Arcs 47/109 pistes open
Val Thorens 50cm@2300m, 46/81 pistes open
Serre Chevalier 30cm@2100m
Isola 2000 30cm@2000m
The coming days look like being sunny and warm with no sign of much snow on the immediate horizon.
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| Val Gardena 16.12.15 - Valgardena.it |
Most of the skiing in Italy is now thanks to fantastic efforts of snowmaking.
Monte Rosa has only four of 95 slopes open across its seven ski areas
Madesimo 5 pistes open.
Madonna di Campiglio has 12 lifts operating
Val Gardena in the Dolomites has incredibly managed to open many pistes with snowmaking despite a complete lack of natural snow.
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