Nozawa Now: Sunday 17th January 2016
- Jan 17, 2016
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 4cm
Snowfall at base this season 145cm
Posted on Sunday 17th January 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
It was great to see 'proper' snowfall during the day yesterday at times.
By proper, I mean the kind of heavy snowfall that we take for granted here but has been something of a stranger this season so far. The heavy stuff didn't last for that long, often going back to lighter snow, but hopefully a sign of what is to come in the next few days... Was good to see more snow than was on the forecast as well!
It's a cold morning but the sun breaking through some of the clouds that remain and increasing amounts of blue sky on show.
My apologies I was not able to catch any updates the report made yesterday afternoon regarding fresh snowfall on the mountain but they have this morning increased the snow depths on all areas by 5-10cm. The webcams for the upper areas this morning are looking very inviting with some blue skies and sunshine up there and that new layer of snow. Should be good.
Hopefully things will be much better too with snow forecast every day from tonight to the end of the week at least - and at times particularly around Tuesday/Wednesday, significant snowfall is expected. There's a chance that the storm may start with some rain lower down here in the village but quickly change into snow.
We all go up to enjoy the snow this morning with great anticipation for what is about to come.
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko: 105cm
Uenotaira: 100cm
Hikage: 25cm
Nagasaka: 20cm
Karasawa: 10cm
New snowfall as reported by the resort since yesterday (apologies for any missed numbers during the day yesterday:
Yamabiko: 0cm
Uenotaira: 0cm
Hikage: 0cm
Nagasaka: 0cm
Karasawa: 0cm
Nozawa Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Sunday 17th January 2016 Total snowfall at base 145cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 19 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 32cm (29th December) November 2015 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2015 snowfall 100cm reported on 9 days January 2016 snowfall 42cm reported on 9 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.