Nozawa Now: Friday 19th December 2014
- Dec 19, 2014
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 25cm
Snowfall at base this season 310cm
Posted on Friday 19th December 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
After the limited lift operations and courses open yesterday, we seem to be back to where we were with the top runs once again open today and the Gondola scheduled to start it's day of work at 8:40am.
Here's what the resort reports this morning in terms of new snowfall since yesterday afternoon:
Yamabiko - 50cm
Uenotaira - 40cm
Hikage - 25cm
Nagasaka - 25cm
It's calmer this morning now that storm has passed but there's still lots of cloud hanging around for the moment. So it's not sunny from the start of the day, but we are still expecting conditions to clear up as the day moves on.
A cold start though it's -3 here in the village and Yamabiko area reporting a temperature of -8 degrees as of 8am.
Tomorrow looks set to be milder and we may some rain falling at lower levels before it hopefully ends up snowing once again with snow forecast for Sunday. I don't think we're expecting a snow storm anything like what we seen over the last few days though.
No confirmed news of the resort opening up more tomorrow. With more people surely going to turn up this weekend, I'm expecting the resort to be as good as fully open. Let me emphasise that's just a guess at this stage. I will update this report later in the day if and when I have more firm news on that front.
UPDATE @ EVENING
Yes, so tomorrow will be the Grand Opening of the resort. Which means a few event like things going on and more importantly... the resort will be almost all opened up. All but a few steeper areas seem to be planning to be open tomorrow. I'll have more info in the morning.
Courses open:
Yamabiko A
Yamabiko B
Yamabiko C
Yamabiko D
Yamabiko E
Kokenashi
Uenotaira
Mizunashi A
Mizunashi B
Bunabayashi
Yunomine B
Ushikubi
Nagasaka
Nagasaka connect
Lifts moving:
Nagasaka Gondola
Yamabiko Four Lift
Yamabiko Number 2 Four Lift
Uenotaira Four
Yu Road (Moving walkway)
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko - 290cm
Uenotaira - 290cm
Hikage - 200cm
Nagasaka - 200cm
Karasawa - N/A
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Data as of Friday 19th December 2014 Total snowfall at base 310cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 9 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 70cm (14th and 18th December) November 2014 snowfall 0cm December 2014 snowfall 310cm reported on 9 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.