Nozawa Now: Saturday 10th April 2021
- Apr 10, 2021
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 798cm
Posted on Saturday 10th April 2021 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
And what do you know!? There's a thin covering of snow right down to lower levels this morning. Enough to even give Kawasawa and Nagasaka areas that speckled look. Enough to just about make a mini snowman... or perhaps a mini Naski. 1-2cm in places and I'm feeling generous to award this late showing 2cm on my report.
That lower base area snow will probably be gone by late morning.
More importantly, the ski area is reporting 4cm of snowfall on the top Yamabiko area.
There is a lot of cloud still around, but we are due sun today - and sun for the whole day tomorrow too as things start to warm up again.
PS I forgot to add the 3cm to the total number yesterday. So today I have added 7cm (3cm from yesterday, 4cm from today) to keep that up to date.
PPS Tomorrows report will appear very late because of some website technical work going on.
All base areas are now closed, so you need to get the gondola back down from upper areas that remain open.
Lifts open today (planned):
Nagasaka Gondola, two Yamabiko quad lifts, Uenotaira quad, Paradise quad
Courses open today (planned):
All Yamabiko courses, Uenotaira, Paradise
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 140cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 95cm
- Hikage (660m): -cm
- Nagasaka (615m): -cm
- Karasawa (563m): -cm
Planned lift operations for the spring season:
- Nagasaka Gondola [every day]
- Yamabiko quad lift [every day]
- Yamabiko quad lift [every day]
- Uenotaira quad lift [10th-11th, 17th-18th, 24th-25th April; 29th April - 9th May]
- Skyline connecting pair lift [29th April until 9th May]
- Paradise quad lift [10th-11th, 17th-18th, 24th-25th April; 29th April - 9th May]
Planned closing date:
- Nozawa Onsen plans to be open until Sunday 9th May
Nozawa Now 2020-2021 season |
Data as of Saturday 10th April 2021 Total snowfall at base 798cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 47 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 56cm (17th December) November 2020 snowfall 0cm December 2020 snowfall 290cm reported on 12 days January 2021 snowfall 252cm reported on 15 days February 2021 snowfall 230cm reported on 18 days March 2021 snowfall 24cm reported on 1 day April 2021 snowfall 2cm reported on 1 day |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Nozawa Onsen. The 'new snowfall' number represents the amount of snow measured since the previous report. All opinions are those of the individual reporters. Information regarding ski area operations is manually checked every morning and is believed to be correct at the time of the report.