Nozawa Now: Saturday 17th February 2024
- Feb 17, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 13, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 1cm
Snowfall at base this season 421cm
Posted on Saturday 17th February 2024 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
There's clear skies across northern Nagano this morning. Fine and sunny and mild conditions expected both today and tomorrow.
I'm liking the look of that snow forecast for around Wednesday, but before then it's time to enjoy the weekend.
All lifts are go! Night skiing on Nagasaka until 8:00pm tonight.
Fresh snowfall since yesterday morning (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 2cm
Uenotaira: 3cm
Hikage: 1cm
Nagasaka: 1cm
Karasawa: 0cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 200cm
Uenotaira: 170cm
Hikage: 60cm
Nagasaka: 60cm
Karasawa: 40cm
All courses apart from the following are now open:
Hachiman
Kandahar (not open to general public)
Nozawa Now 2023-2024 season |
Data as of Saturday 17th February 2024 Total snowfall at base 421cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 36 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 64cm (23rd December) November 2023 snowfall 21cm reported on 2 days December 2023 snowfall 93cm reported on 10 days January 2024 snowfall 219cm reported on 14 days February 2024 snowfall 88cm reported on 10 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.