Nozawa Now: Friday 17th March 2017
- Mar 17, 2017
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 1cm
Snowfall at base this season 783cm
Posted on Friday 17th March 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Lots of cloud around this morning with earlier light snow now easing off.
Clearer skies are forecast though; if not this morning then later on and over the coming weekend.
Talking about the coming weekend, it's a long one as Monday is a holiday here in Japan.
Probably going to be popular as well with fine weather forecast so expect a lot of people to be here enjoying the mountain.
Fresh snow reported by resort since yesterday morning:
- Yamabiko: 5cm
- Uenotaira: 6cm
- Hikage: 0cm
- Nagasaka: 3cm
- Karasawa: 0cm
Official snow depths:
- Yamabiko: 395cm
- Uenotaira: 300cm
- Hikage: 165cm
- Nagasaka: 160cm
- Karasawa: 100cm
Lifts operations:
- All lifts operating apart from:
- Yunomine pair (usually closed on weekdays)
- Mizunashi triple (usually closed on weekdays)
- Challenge pair (usually closed on weekdays)
- Utopia pair (usually closed on weekdays)
Courses not open today are:
- Grand Prix
- Kandahar East
- Kandahar West
Nozawa Now 2016-2017 season |
Data as of Friday 17th March 2017 Total snowfall at base 783cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 62 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 366cm reported on 20 days February 2017 snowfall 196cm reported on 19 days March 2017 snowfall 58cm reported on 7 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.