Nozawa Now: Tuesday 17th January 2017
- Jan 17, 2017
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 32cm
Snowfall at base this season 375cm
Posted on Tuesday 17th January 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Hello and good morning to you from Nozawa where snow is still falling!
And since yesterday morning the resort has reported another impressive 45cm of fresh snow on the top Yamabiko area with at least 25cm mountain-wide.
There just basically loads of snow everywhere at the moment and top quality stuff too. It's what we love to see.
But with so much snow over such a short period of time the dangers increase and extra care and caution is really needed at the moment. Sometimes it might be difficult to stop getting carried away with in all this powder. There's more than enough quality snow on the course areas of the resort. Right now it is highly recommended to stay on them.
There may be some sunshine tomorrow as this one storm eases off, but it looks like there's more heavy snow lined up for Friday night and into Saturday. That's what we want from now on, decent regular snowfall.
It is very sad to hear yesterday about an Australian family missing at the resort. We very much hope to hear good news on that today as searches continue.
Fresh snow reported by resort since yesterday morning:
- Yamabiko: 45cm
- Uenotaira: 34cm
- Hikage: 34cm
- Nagasaka: 45cm
- Karasawa: 25cm
Official snow depths:
- Yamabiko: 340cm
- Uenotaira: 240cm
- Hikage: 190cm
- Nagasaka: 175cm
- Karasawa: 150cm
Lifts operations:
All lifts appear to be operating apart from:
- Yunomine pair
- Mizunashi triple
- Challenge pair
- Utopia pair
- Kandahar pair
Most courses at Nozawa Onsen are now open. Courses not open are:
- Hachiman
- Kandahar East
- Kandahar West
- Kamoshika
Nozawa Now 2016-2017 season |
Data as of Tuesday 17th January 2017 Total snowfall at base 375cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 26 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 52cm (14th January) November 2016 snowfall 2cm reported on 2 days December 2016 snowfall 161cm reported on 14 days January 2017 snowfall 212cm 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.