Nozawa Now: Saturday 15th February 2014
- Feb 15, 2014
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 25cm
Snowfall at base this season 456cm
Posted on Saturday 15th February 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
I am the bearer of good news this morning.
New snow. Nice powdery snow. Oh yes.
Yamabiko - 20cm
Uenotaira - 25cm
Hikage - 30cm
Nagasaka - 35cm
Karasawa - 25cm
So today, most snowfall on... Nagasaka?! Interesting. But bottom line is there's a good wad of new light fresh snow over all the mountain as we feel like we are back to winter again. Although it's strangely mild and just about keeping in the negatives for now. We are being told of the chance of the snow being sleet later on down here at base, but I hope we avoid that.
Just a few less exciting things to report. First of all it looks like early on the popular Skyline course is closed, as well as the Kamoshika course. I don't have any details on that or whether they will open later on in the day.
The other is that this weekend again heavy snow is falling in places where it often doesn't - down to the south including the Tokyo area. There seems to be widespread disruption to traffic with roads closed and trains cancelled. This will mean less people getting here, which while sad for those people it means less crowds for those who are here.
Should be a top day today. Enjoy.
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko - 290cm
Uenotaira - 250cm
Hikage - 180cm
Nagasaka - 140cm
Karasawa - 130cm
Lifts
All lifts operating
Courses
All courses open except:
Skyline
Kandahar West
Kandahar East
Kamoshika
Nozawa Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Saturday 15th February 2014 Total snowfall at base 456cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 40 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 259cm reported on 19 days February 2014 snowfall 82cm 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.