Nozawa Now: Saturday 18th January 2014
- Jan 18, 2014
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 5cm
Snowfall at base this season 260cm
Posted on Saturday 18th January 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Nozawa and welcome to the weekend.
The village was bustling last night as people arrived for their weekend fix - it's going to be another busy one here!
A cold and icy start to the day with the temps down to -8 degrees as of 8:30am. The resort isn't actually saying that the top is much colder than the base which is unusual. The sun is out and it's a fine morning.
Happily we have some fresh snow to play in... those getting up there early will have anyway. 5cm across most of the mountain during the day yesterday and this morning another 5-15cm of fresh snow to report; with 10cm reported from Hikage and Nagasaka and 15cm reported on the Uenotaira slopes. There's some snow to shovel down in the village as well this morning which is always a good start.
As good as news of fresh snow is, we want more. Obviously. Tonight it should be snowing and it's looking good for a decent dump of snow overnight so I am looking forward to reporting that in my next report. Doesn't look like it'll be prolonged though with clearer forecast for Monday but back to decent snowfall around Tuesday. So things are looking promising.
All lifts are go!
Have a fun weekend.
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko - 240cm
Uenotaira - 215cm
Hikage - 150cm
Nagasaka - 130cm
Karasawa - 90cm
Lifts
All lifts operating
Courses
All courses open except:
Kandahar West
Kandahar East
Nozawa Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Saturday 18th January 2014 Total snowfall at base 260cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 25 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 145cm reported on 12 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.