Nozawa Now: Thursday 17th January 2019
- Jan 17, 2019
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 13cm
Snowfall at base this season 359cm
Posted on Thursday 17th January 2019 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
I am kind of confused a bit this morning because I thought we were expecting snow today.
Just rewind a bit and there was snow during the day yesterday. Not masses of it but a fresh layer and the resort reporting 10-17cm in total with no further snowfall overnight.
A cold start but that cold should ease off this morning, hopefully not rising above zero.
The forecast still shows some decent snow into tomorrow and then around Sunday and early in the week so we should be enjoying regular top-ups.
For the moment, its a cracking morning.
Fresh snowfall reported by the ski resort (since yesterday morning):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 12cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 13cm
- Hikage (660m): -cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 17cm
- Karasawa (563m): 10cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by resort):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 225cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 205cm
- Hikage (660m): 140cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 125cm
- Karasawa (563m): 110cm
All lifts apart from the following planned to be operating:
- Yunomine pair
- Mizunashi triple
- Challenge pair
- Utopia pair
- Kandahar pair
All courses open apart from the following planned to be open:
- Grand Prix
- Mukobayashi
- Kandahar (open to public on 12th February and 1st March 2019)
Nozawa Now 2018-2019 season |
Data as of Thursday 17th January 2019 Total snowfall at base 359cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 26 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 48cm (9th January) November 2018 snowfall 2cm reported on 1 day December 2018 snowfall 202cm reported on 13 days January 2019 snowfall 155cm reported on 12 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.