Nozawa Now: Monday 16th March 2020
- Mar 16, 2020
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 1cm
Snowfall at base this season 416cm
Posted on Monday 16th March 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
This morning the resort is reporting 10cm of fresh snow on the top Yamabiko and Uenotaira areas overnight.
And actually while there is quite a lot of cloud around, it's at the same time bright and the sun is peeking through the clouds at times.
The forecast still says snow during the middle of the day - as well as some windy conditions. I'll let you know how that goes tomorrow morning.
Fresh snowfall recorded by resort since yesterday afternoon:
- Yamabiko (1407m): 10cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 10cm
- Hikage (660m): -cm
- Nagasaka (615m): -cm
- Karasawa (563m): -cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by resort):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 195cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 120cm
- Hikage (660m): 25cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 15cm
- Karasawa (563m): -cm
All lifts normally operating apart from the following lifts:
- Karasawa pair
- Kandahar pair
- Challenge pair
- Utopia pair
- Mizunashi triple
The following courses are closed:
- Schneider (south)
- Utopia B
- Kurokubi
- Kandahara
- Skyline
- Grand Prix
- Jumping
- Mukoubayashi
- Karasawa
- Hachiman
- Nagasaka link
- Karasawa link
- Kamoshika
- Tanuki
- Usagi
Nozawa Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Monday 16th March 2020 Total snowfall at base 416cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 35 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 56cm (9th February) November 2019 snowfall 4cm reported on 2 days December 2019 snowfall 33cm reported on 5 days January 2020 snowfall 120cm reported on 11 days February 2020 snowfall 245cm reported on 14 days March 2020 snowfall 14cm reported on 3 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.