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Nozawa Now: Wednesday 17th February 2016

  • Feb 17, 2016
  • 2 min read

Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano


New snowfall at base 3cm
Snowfall at base this season 340cm

Posted on Wednesday 17th February 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


Morning from Nozawa and it's back to snow again today.


Fine weather yesterday and some good conditions to enjoy as well. It got fairly mild, though not like what we had last week thankfully, and there was definitely some snow melt going on but now that we are back to snow again today we should be getting some good cm in today. As much as possible, as tomorrow we're going to be back to clear skies and sunshine again.


The weather seems somehow just really confused this season. And not making it any easier for us either!


Anyway, snow falling now and falling quite heavily as well. Fingers crossed it continues.


Official snow depths:


Yamabiko: 150cm

Uenotaira: 100cm

Hikage: 80cm

Nagasaka: 65cm

Karasawa: 45cm


New snowfall as reported by the resort since yesterday:


Yamabiko: 5cm

Uenotaira: 5cm

Hikage: 2cm

Nagasaka: 2cm

Karasawa: 2cm



Nozawa Now 2015-2016 season

Data as of Wednesday 17th February 2016 Total snowfall at base 340cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 40 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 36cm (10th February) November 2015 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2015 snowfall 100cm reported on 9 days January 2016 snowfall 132cm reported on 21 days February 2016 snowfall 105cm reported on 9 days




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