Nozawa Now: Friday 10th January 2014
- Jan 10, 2014
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 45cm
Snowfall at base this season 205cm
Posted on Friday 10th January 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Now this is more like it. Hold on, I'll use capitals. THIS IS MORE LIKE IT!
Can you tell how happy I am to be able to report some very nice heavy snowfall this morning? Yes it was coming down yesterday and by 4pm the resort was reporting 15cm around the mountain, but we woke to lots more snow. Here's what they are reporting on various parts of the mountain since 3pm yesterday:
Yamabiko - 30cm
Uenotaira - 40cm
Hikage - 35cm
Nagasaka - 35cm
Karasawa - 30cm
So that means in places there has been over half a metre of snow. The snow depth numbers have zoomed right up this morning as well as you would expect, with Yamabiko now reporting 260cm and Hikage on 145cm.
It's good and cold as well this morning. It is still snowing and should be (on and off?) for the day and beyond though some local forecasts have the snow easing off somewhat. Whatever, the snow clouds should remain closeby and I'll let you know every morning anyway.
Conditions should be top notch this morning.
Hurray!
Enjoy but remember to take care out there in those deep conditions. Visibility is generally poor, so know where you're going.
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko - 260cm
Uenotaira - 210cm
Hikage - 145cm
Nagasaka - 100cm
Karasawa - 100cm
Lifts
All lifts operating except:
Yunomine pair
Mizunashi pair
Challenge pair
Utopia pair
Hikage Number 2 pair A
Courses
All courses open except:
Kandahar West
Nozawa Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Friday 10th January 2014 Total snowfall at base 205cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 18 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 45cm (10th January) November 2013 snowfall 15cm reported on 2 days December 2013 snowfall 100cm reported on 11 days January 2014 snowfall 90cm reported on 5 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.