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Nozawa Now: Friday 16th January 2015

  • Jan 16, 2015
  • 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 647cm

Posted on Friday 16th January 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


Hello and a lovely fresh morning from Nozawa. Though I expect not everyone is feeling quite so fresh after the events of last night. As ever on that date in particular, Nozawa was bustling with life last night.


10cm of snowfall since last night and just cloudy skies to start the day off here. A bit wet lower down but would expect the conditions to be better higher up.


A significant refresh would be just the ticket now, and hopefully we'll get that overnight tonight. Temperatures look set to take a drop with snow due starting tonight and continuing through tomorrow.


During the day today though expecting mostly cloud - foggy conditions on Yamabiko early on - and fairly mild temperatures.


Lots of snow tonight please!


Fresh snow to report this morning since yesterday afternoon:

Yamabiko - 10cm

Uenotaira - 10cm

Hikage - 10cm

Nagasaka - 10cm

Karasawa - 10cm


Official snow depths:

Yamabiko - 350cm

Uenotaira - 305cm

Hikage - 220cm

Nagasaka - 220cm

Karasawa - 185cm


Courses open:

All courses are open except:

Grand Prix course

Jumping Course

Challenge 39

Kandahar West


Lifts open (subject to weather conditions):

All lifts operating except:

Yunomine pair

Mizunashi triple

Challenge pair

Utopia pair

Hikage Number 2 Pair B line



Nozawa Now 2014-2015 season

Data as of Friday 16th January 2015 Total snowfall at base 647cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 24 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 70cm (14th and 18th December) November 2014 snowfall 0cm December 2014 snowfall 437cm reported on 14 days January 2015 snowfall 210cm reported on 10 days




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