Nozawa Now: Thursday 18th February 2016
- Feb 18, 2016
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 40cm
Snowfall at base this season 380cm
Posted on Thursday 18th February 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Some very respectable snow numbers since the report yesterday morning with some really heavy snow falling for quite a lot of the day.
Proper Nozawa style!
The resort made a few updates during the day all adding up to around 50cm of fresh snow in places and not that much less than that down at base either.
It was a good day and this morning should be excellent - helped along by some very fine clear skies and sunshine.
Going to warm up a little this afternoon, hopefully not too much. Tomorrow is also going to probably be sunny and a bit warmer than today too, with a high of around 6-7 degrees expected at base.
Then we come to Saturday which promises snow later in the day and the chance of some rain (please..no) earlier on before the snow - though it'll probably start off as snow on upper parts of the mountain.
The roller-coaster like and odd weather of the season continues! (Let's have some more days like yesterday!)
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko: 170cm
Uenotaira: 125cm
Hikage: 115cm
Nagasaka: 90cm
Karasawa: 80cm
New snowfall as reported by the resort since yesterday:
Yamabiko: 50cm
Uenotaira: 52cm
Hikage: 48cm
Nagasaka: 48cm
Karasawa: 40cm
All courses open except:
Paradise connection
Kurokura
Grand Prix
Hachiman
Mukoubayashi
Kandahar West
Kandahar East
Lifts planned to be rested today:
Yunomine pair
Mizunashi triple
Challenge pair
Utopia pair
Kandahar pair
Hikage Number 2 pair B line
Nozawa Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Thursday 18th February 2016 Total snowfall at base 380cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 41 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 40cm (18th February) November 2015 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2015 snowfall 100cm reported on 9 days January 2016 snowfall 132cm reported on 21 days February 2016 snowfall 145cm reported on 10 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.