Nozawa Now: Sunday 15th December 2013
- Dec 15, 2013
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 10cm
Snowfall at base this season 44cm
Posted on Sunday 15th December 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Nozawa reporting 30cm of fresh snow up top on Yamabiko and 25cm on Uenotaira runs this morning, along with cold -7C temperatures. Needless to say, powder conditions. There's not much to see up top with poor visibility but the people getting out there should be rewarded with great snow conditions.
The resort is still not reporting snow depth on lower runs, presumably just because they aren't open, but we have had another layer on the runs at base though there isn't enough to open yet. It is snowing now though and should be throughout the day and into tomorrow. We are all hoping that it won't be long before more of the mountain can open, though the snow does look like it will probably be finished sometime tomorrow with a chance of sun on Tuesday.
Official snow depth:
Yamabiko - 100cm
Uenotaira - 80cm
Lower slopes - no official snow depth data yet
Lifts
Nagasaka Gondola
Yamabiko Four lift
Yamabiko Number 2 Four lift
Skyline connecting lift
Uenotaira quad
Courses
Yamabiko A course
Yamabiko B course
Yamabiko C course
Yamabiko D course
Yamabiko E course
Uenotaira course
Bunabayashi course
Yunomine B course
Kokenashi
Nozawa Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Sunday 15th December 2013 Total snowfall at base 44cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 7 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 10cm (on 30th November, 8th and 15th December) November 2013 snowfall 15cm reported on 2 days December 2013 snowfall 29cm 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.