Nozawa Now: Tuesday 19th December 2023
- Dec 19, 2023
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 3cm
Snowfall at base this season 30cm
Posted on Tuesday 19th December 2023 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Yesterday was a curious one. As noted yesterday morning, the snow clouds that were hoping for mostly missed us, but it was snowing a bit later in the day giving us several cm down at base.
The ski area has reported 10cm of snow at Yamabiko and 5cm at Uenotaira since yesterday afternoon. The snow depth number this morning is up to 35cm.
Given only the minimal change in conditions, ski area operations appear to be the same this morning as they were yesterday, so it's just the Yamabiko D run that is available.
Around Friday is the next due snowfall and it does look promising. Hopefully this time the snow clouds will park directly above our mountain and refuse to budge!
At 8am it is very cloudy but quite bright and I wonder if we might get some sun.
Fresh snowfall since yesterday morning (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 10cm
Uenotaira: 5cm
Hikage: -
Nagasaka: -
Karasawa: -
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 35cm
Uenotaira: 10cm
Hikage: -
Nagasaka: -
Karasawa: -
Lifts operating:
Nagasaka Gondola (from 8:30am)
Yamabiko Number 2 Four quad lift
Yu Road (from 8:00am)
Courses available:
Yamabiko D (1,250m)
Only part of the top area is open.
You need to get the gondola back down to base.
All base areas are closed.
Nozawa Now 2023-2024 season |
Data as of Tuesday 19th December 2023 Total snowfall at base 30cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 6 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 13cm (25th November) November 2023 snowfall 21cm reported on 2 days December 2023 snowfall 9cm reported on 4 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.