Nozawa Now: Wednesday 19th February 2014
- Feb 19, 2014
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 15cm
Snowfall at base this season 536cm
Posted on Wednesday 19th February 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Morning from Nozawa and it has continued snowing here on the mountain and down in the village.
Here's what the resort has logged since yesterday morning:
Yamabiko - 15cm
Uenotaira - 20cm
Hikage - 18cm
Nagasaka - 18cm
Karasawa - 15cm
Right now it is cloudy and light snow still falling with pretty poor visibility on all but the very lower slopes - can't see much of anything up on the top areas.
It's keeping good and cold and about -3 degrees at the moment. Top temperature up on Yamabiko of -10C as of 7:30am.
We're actually expecting just cloudy for the day - perhaps even clearing conditions.
Snow conditions on the mountain are really great at the moment and this last storm has really filled things in good and proper. I was up there yesterday and fidning lots of untouched, nice and deep - helped along not only by the large amount of snowfall since the weekend but also fewer people than usual because of the traffic situation. The people of Nozawa are certainly hoping that there's no more heavy snow in places where it doesn't matter preventing people getting here!
If all transport options are available, I would expect this coming weekend to be a big one with people wanting to come and play in the snow. In the meantime, we have a few days to enjoy it before the weekenders arrive!
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 Wednesday 19th February 2014 Total snowfall at base 536cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 44 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 162cm 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.