Nozawa Now: Thursday 10th January 2013
- Jan 10, 2013
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 5cm
Snowfall at base this season 346cm
Weather overview Cloud, light snow
Wind Light
Temperature -
Visibility
Limited
Posted on Thursday 10th January 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Looking out the window in Nozawa this morning it seems the much anticipated fresh snow has arrived. Since last lifts yesterday we have had 15cm up top and 5cm in the village.
There should be fun riding throughout the resort today, but likely there will be a bit of a dust-on-crust phenomenon occurring. The snowfalls will continue till sometime tonight so the riding should improve through the day.
Yesterday was again very quiet on the mountain, but today looks like it will be busier with noticeably more cars making the way up to the car parks. Fresh snow can have that effect!
Temperatures over the past few days have been relatively warm during the day and even up top the snow was getting heavy. It was foggy down to mid-mountain yesterday so the best riding was the spring-like snow down on the lower runs.
Looking further ahead we have some variable weather on the forecast. Tomorrow there is a chance of morning snow showers and from then on there should be a clearing trend until the next possible snow around the 13th of the month.
Lifts operating:
All lifts operating except
Yunomine Pair
Mizunashi Triple
Challenge Pair
Utopia Pair
Higake No2 Pair B line
Courses open:
All courses open except
Kandahar West
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko
230cm
Uenotaira
220cm
Hikage
130cm
Nagasaka
120cm
Karasawa
90cm
Nozawa Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Thursday 10th January 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 346cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 20 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 60cm (on 4th January) November 2012 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2012 snowfall 213cm reported on 15 days January 2013 snowfall 130cm reported on 4 days |
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.