Nozawa Now: Sunday 18th December 2016
- Dec 18, 2016
- 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 78cm
Posted on Sunday 18th December 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Nozawa and it's a beauty of a morning.
Blue skies and sunshine. It's going to be beautiful up on the mountain this morning.
The resort isn't reporting any fresh snow but there was a bit more since my report yesterday so I'm adding that this morning.
There's more of the mountain open as well now with those details added below.
Taking a look at the forecast - we're expecting fine, mild and dry weather over the next few days (today expected to rise to around +5c) and from mid week it's looking likely that rain will be falling - perhaps even at upper levels as the freezing point makes it's way up to close on 3000m. Please no!
Hopefully by the time the weekend rolls around it will start getting colder once more and snow will be falling over Christmas.
Lifts that are planned to be operating:
All lifts are now operating except for:
- Kandahar pair
- Hikage Four
- Nagasaka Quad
- Nagasaka pair
- Karasawa pair
Courses that are planned to be open:
- Yamabiko A course
- Yamabiko B course
- Yamabiko C course
- Yamabiko D course
- Yamabiko E course
- Kokenashi course
- Uenotaira course
- Paradise course
- Mizunashi A
- Mizunashi B
- Bunabayashi course
- Yunomine B course
- Rinkan course
- Utopia
- Challenge
- Ushikubi
- Nagasaka link
Official snow depths:
- Yamabiko: 120cm
- Uenotaira: 80cm
- Hikage: 55cm
- Nagasaka: 45cm
- Karasawa: 40cm
Fresh snow reported by resort since yesterday morning:
- Yamabiko: 0cm
- Uenotaira: 0cm
- Hikage: 0cm
- Nagasaka: 0cm
- Karasawa: 0cm
Nozawa Now 2016-2017 season |
Data as of Sunday 18th December 2016 Total snowfall at base 78cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 10 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 24cm (11th December) November 2016 snowfall 2cm reported on 2 days December 2016 snowfall 76cm reported on 8 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.