Nozawa Now: Monday 13th January 2014
- Jan 13, 2014
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 25cm
Snowfall at base this season 242cm
Posted on Monday 13th January 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
After seeing the sun and a calm day yesterday during the daytime, snow has been delivered for this morning.
20-30cm of fresh snowfall is being reported from the different areas of the mountain this morning and I am happy to have to get out with a shovel once I have posted this report to move the 25cm or so outside. It's near on whiteout conditions on the upper areas at the moment as the snow continues to fall.
-4C at the moment and it's unlikely to warm up today at all, even if the snow eases off as is forecast.
Today is the last day of the long weekend of course, and things seem slightly less busy this morning. Expect many more people to be moving on out around lunchtime.
From tomorrow we are probably going to have clearer skies over the region, at least not much in terms of snow. Even so, it does look like it will be keeping cold, which is what we want.
So decent weather conditions likely for the upcoming 'Dosojin' Fire Festival, the main event which is on Wednesday evening, the 15th. Preparations are underway for this popular annual event in Nozawa. And of course there will be people arriving in Nozawa again to experience it.
To sum up the festival... 42 year olds climb atop a wooden shrine protected by the 25 year olds, as the rest of the villagers carry out fire attacks trying to burn down the shrine. Or something like that, but much more. It is ranked in the top three fire festivals in Japan and is always be a great spectacle. Wrap up well and enjoy the festivities in the village.
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko - 250cm
Uenotaira - 220cm
Hikage - 150cm
Nagasaka - 140cm
Karasawa - 100cm
Lifts
All lifts operating
Courses
All courses open except:
Kandahar West
Kandahar East
Nozawa Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Monday 13th January 2014 Total snowfall at base 242cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 21 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 127cm reported on 8 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.