Nozawa Now: Tuesday 18th December 2018
- Dec 18, 2018
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 9cm
Snowfall at base this season 89cm
Posted on Tuesday 18th December 2018 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Nozawa.
Some sun was shining through yesterday but overnight the snow clouds have come back and delivered us with around 10cm of fresh snow (the resort is reporting 10-20cm mountain wide). It is still snowing now and looks like there's rather limited visibility on the mountain.
More opening too with the Schneider and Challenge courses now available so there's a lot of terrain open and we're doing pretty good... though a few more decent dumps of snow would be most welcome. (Aren't they always?!)
The forecast seems to be showing the chance of light snow on/off over the next few days with still the chance of some rain here and there are temps get a little warmer towards the weekend. Hopefully we get over the hill there and drop down and get decent snowfall in time for Christmas.
Fresh snowfall recorded by resort (since yesterday):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 10cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 20cm
- Hikage (660m): 10cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 10cm
- Karasawa (563m): -cm
Lifts operations starting from 8:30am:
- Nagasaka Gondola
- Hikage Gondola
- Yamabiko Four Lift
- Yamabiko Number 2 Four Lift
- Skyline connecting pair lift
- Yunomine pair lift
- Uenotaira Four Lift
- Hikage Triple lift
- Hikage Four lift
- Shinyu pair lift
- Nagasaka triple lift
- Yu Road
Open courses:
- Yamabiko A
- Yamabiko C
- Yamabiko B
- Yamabiko D
- Yamabiko E
- Uenotaira
- Kokenashi
- Paradise
- Bunabayashi (to mid-station)
- Rinkan
- Hikage (southern area)
- Nagasaka connecting
- Kumataka
- Mizunashi
- Yunomine
- Ushikubi
Official snow depth numbers:
- Yamabiko (1407m): 80cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 70cm
- Hikage (660m): 55cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 55cm
- Karasawa (563m): -cm
Nozawa Now 2018-2019 season |
Data as of Tuesday 18th December 2018 Total snowfall at base 89cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 8 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 34cm (15th December) November 2018 snowfall 2cm reported on 1 day December 2018 snowfall 87cm 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.