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Nozawa Now: Tuesday 17th March 2020

  • Mar 17, 2020
  • 2 min read

Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano


New snowfall at base 16cm
Snowfall at base this season 432cm

Posted on Tuesday 17th March 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


There is a layer of fresh snow on the ground and the sun shining down on us. It is a cold and beautiful morning.


I have changed the "courses that are closed" list to "courses that remain open".


Take care everyone, and please read the message below.


Fresh snowfall recorded by resort since yesterday afternoon at 3pm:


- Apologies, I was not able to make a note of official numbers from 8am-3pm during the daytime yesterday

- The below numbers are overnight

- Yamabiko (1407m): 10cm

- Uenotaira (1230m): 10cm

- Hikage (660m): 10cm

- Nagasaka (615m): 10cm

- Karasawa (563m): -cm [not reporting]


Official snow depth numbers (reported by resort):


- Yamabiko (1407m): 215cm

- Uenotaira (1230m): 140cm

- Hikage (660m): 30cm

- Nagasaka (615m): 15cm

- Karasawa (563m): -cm


All lifts normally operating apart from the following lifts:


- Karasawa pair

- Kandahar pair

- Challenge pair

- Utopia pair

- Mizunashi triple


The following courses remain open:


- Yamabiko A

- Yamabiko B

- Yamabiko C

- Yamabiko D

- Yamabiko E

- Kogenashi A

- Kogenashi B

- Uenotaira

- Paradise

- Yunomine A

- Yunomine B

- Mizunashi A

- Mizunashi B

- Bunabayashi

- Challenge

- Challenge 39

- Utopia A

- Rinkan

- Ushikubi

- Hikage (part)

- Isemiya

- Nagasaka

- Kumataka

- Kitsune



Nozawa Now 2019-2020 season

Data as of Tuesday 17th March 2020 Total snowfall at base 432cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 36 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 56cm (9th February) November 2019 snowfall 4cm reported on 2 days December 2019 snowfall 33cm reported on 5 days January 2020 snowfall 120cm reported on 11 days February 2020 snowfall 245cm reported on 14 days March 2020 snowfall 30cm reported on 4 days




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