Nozawa Now: Saturday 10th March 2018
- Mar 10, 2018
- 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 699cm
Posted on Saturday 10th March 2018 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Nozawa.
And happily here we are today with the weather of yesterday and the day before behind us.
Cloudy with some light snow falling higher up early this morning and a bit of fresh snow on the ground. Nozawa is reporting 5cm at Yamabiko, 11cm at Uenotaira and 3cm on Nagasaka lower down and I can report a few cm by base too. Good to see, even though we'd like to see more than that of course!
The skies might clear up and the sun might come out later on though it should be keeping quite cold today. A little warmer tomorrow with more sunshine expected.
Don't hold your breath for any decent fresh snowfall over the coming week. Rather, early week milder temperatures and sun look like they'll be the main headline.
That doesn't mean that there's not fun to be had of course - there's a lot of spring fun ahead of us. Almost 2 months of it if the snow lasts! I'm still holding on to the idea of more fresh snow ahead of us.
I'm definitely going to try and make the most of it.
Fresh snowfall since yesterday (as reported by the resort):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 5cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 11cm
- Hikage (660m): -cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 3cm
- Karasawa (563m): -cm
Official snow depth numbers:
- Yamabiko (1407m): 280cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 210cm
- Hikage (660m): 150cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 145cm
- Karasawa (563m): 95cm
Lifts operations:
- All lifts should be open as planned this morning
- The Yunomine pair, Mizunashi triple, Challenge pair and Utopia pair lifts usually rested on weekdays.
The following courses either closed (or not fully available):
- Grand Prix
- Kandahar
- Hachiman
Nozawa Now 2017-2018 season |
Data as of Saturday 10th March 2018 Total snowfall at base 699cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 55 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 53cm (27th December) November 2017 snowfall 21cm reported on 2 days December 2017 snowfall 217cm reported on 16 days January 2018 snowfall 325cm reported on 20 days February 2018 snowfall 131cm reported on 15 days March 2018 snowfall 5cm reported on 2 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.