{"id":76188,"date":"2009-12-30T21:12:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T12:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welcome.city.matsumoto.nagano.jp\/modules\/xpressme\/?p=130"},"modified":"2009-12-30T21:12:59","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T12:12:59","slug":"great-snow-came-to-ski-resorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/winter-activities\/great-snow-came-to-ski-resorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Snow Came to Ski Resorts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldxoopswpattach\/p1020390.jpg\" alt=\"Norikura Ski Resort\" align=\"left\" \/>Global warming is even affecting Matsumoto. People working in ski resorts were sighing over little snow until mid-December and some ski areas&#8217; openings were postponed.<br \/>\nBut! Since Dec 16th, the temperature dropped to around -10 centigrade and great snow came.<br \/>\nIn Hakuba, 74cm of snow fell in downtown. More than 1 meter of natural powder snow fell in mountain areas.<br \/>\nNorikura Highland Hot Spring Ski Resort in Matsumoto fully opened on December 19th.<br \/>\nSee our <a href=\"\/contents05+index.htm\">Winter Activities page<\/a> and enjoy great snow!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/winter-activities\/great-snow-came-to-ski-resorts\/\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.visitmatsumoto.com\/en\/winter-activities\/great-snow-came-to-ski-resorts\/\" data-text=\"Great Snow Came to Ski Resorts!\"  >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global warming is even affecting Matsumoto. People working in ski resorts were sighing over little snow until mid-December and some ski areas&#8217; openings were postponed. But! Since Dec 16th, the temperature dropped to around -10 centigrade and great snow came. In Hakuba, 74cm of snow fell in downtown. More than 1 meter of natural powder snow fell in mountain areas. Norikura Highland Hot Spring Ski Resort in Matsumoto fully opened on December 19th. 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