Nozawa Now: Thursday 16th January 2020
- Jan 16, 2020
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 13cm
Snowfall at base this season 117cm
Posted on Thursday 16th January 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good news!!
Some people reading this might have a cloudy head this morning after the festival fun last night, but those getting up early and heading up the mountain should be rewarded...
The resort this morning is reporting 20-26cm of fresh snowfall on the upper areas and 10-15cm on lower areas too (since 3pm yesterday). I can add 13cm to my report as my observed number from base.
Those are more like numbers that I would often be reporting from Nozawa, but in this season of less-snow-than-usual it kind of feels more exciting to be able to report it this morning.
(Lesson currently being learnt - be sure to always appreciate the snow all the time. It's all precious.)
With a decent new level of fresh, conditions should be much improved this morning and I am very keen to get up there myself.
:)
Fresh snowfall recorded by resort since yesterday morning:
- Yamabiko (1407m): 21cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 31cm
- Hikage (660m): 15cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 15cm
- Karasawa (563m): 10cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by resort):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 130cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 110cm
- Hikage (660m): 50cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 40cm
- Karasawa (563m): 15cm
All lifts normally operating apart from these lifts:
- Challenge pair
- Utopia pair
- Kandahar pair
- Karasawa pair
All courses open apart from the following courses:
- Challenge 39
- Kandahar
- Skyline (lower section)
- Grand Prix
- Jumping
- Mukobayashi
- Karasawa
- Nagasaka link
- Hachiman
Nozawa Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Thursday 16th January 2020 Total snowfall at base 117cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 15 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 23cm (5th January) November 2019 snowfall 4cm reported on 2 days December 2019 snowfall 33cm reported on 5 days January 2020 snowfall 80cm 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.