Nozawa Now: Tuesday 18th February 2014
- Feb 18, 2014
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 20cm
Snowfall at base this season 521cm
Posted on Tuesday 18th February 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
More snow in Nozawa. Yes, the last run of days since late last week has really felt more like a 'normal' Nozawa with the consistent snowfall. We're even getting the 'too much snow' comments from some people - always a good sign!
Since yesterday the Yamabiko area has reported 25cm; Uenotaira 35cm; Hikage 5cm; Nagasaka 30cm; Hikage 25cm; Kawasawa 20cm. Whatever the numbers, there's more fresh out there this morning and it is continuing to snow this morning.
If the forecasts are to be believed, snow should dry up during today and tomorrow should be a cloudy day; perhaps even clear and sunny.
Roads around Nozawa are ok but there are still some roads that people use to get here not open - still! - and warnings of more snow for Tokyo before the weekend. Hopefully that will not affect peoples plans like it has done since last weekend.
For those able to be here.... great conditions to be found. Hope you can get to enjoy it.
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko - 370cm
Uenotaira - 300cm
Hikage - 240cm
Nagasaka - 230cm
Karasawa - 180cm
Lifts
Weekday operations - all lifts operating except:
Yunomine pair
Mizunashi triple
Challange pair
Utopia pair
Hikage No2 pair B
Courses
All courses open except:
Grand Prix
Kandahar West
Kandahar East
Kamoshika
Tanuki
Nozawa Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Tuesday 18th February 2014 Total snowfall at base 521cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 43 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 45cm (10th January) November 2013 snowfall 15cm reported on 2 days December 2013 snowfall 100cm reported on 11 days January 2014 snowfall 259cm reported on 19 days February 2014 snowfall 147cm reported on 11 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.