Nozawa Now: Friday 16th December 2016
- Dec 16, 2016
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 6cm
Snowfall at base this season 65cm
Posted on Friday 16th December 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Morning from Nozawa and 5-10cm of snow being reported by the resort this morning and 6cm measured by myself.
Yesterday late afternoon deserves a mention. Not for snow but the spectacular colours that nature provided - a mix of pink and blue pastel shades to the skies and clouds, it was beautiful.
But we want more beautiful snow of course, so it's good that there's some fresh this morning and it is snowing as I write this as well. After today the forecast is looking rather dry and at times quite mild too, so we could do with a decent dump of snow today.
Actually, from today the 'Yu Road' is open and also the Hikage Gondola is going to open so the Paradise course is scheduled to be available as well. The resort has also said that it is preparing the Paradise Four lift, the Hikage triple lift and Shinyu pair lift as well, so we're going to be seeing more open very soon.
Lifts that are planned to be operating:
Nagasaka Gondola (8:30am-3:30pm)
Yamabiko Four Lift (9:00am-3:30pm)
Yamabiko Number 2 Four Lift (8:55am-3:40pm)
Uenotaira Four Lift (9:00am-3:40pm)
Courses that are planned to be open:
Yamabiko A course
Yamabiko B course
Yamabiko C course
Yamabiko D course
Yamabiko E course
Uenotaira course
Paradise
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko: 110cm
Uenotaira: 80cm
Hikage: 50cm
Nagasaka: 50cm
Karasawa: 40cm
Fresh snow reported by resort since yesterday morning
Yamabiko: 10cm
Uenotaira: 10cm
Hikage: 8cm
Nagasaka: 8cm
Karasawa: 5cm
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Data as of Friday 16th December 2016 Total snowfall at base 65cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 8 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 24cm (11th December) November 2016 snowfall 2cm reported on 2 days December 2016 snowfall 63cm reported on 6 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.