Nozawa Now: Thursday 19th February 2026
- Feb 19
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 26cm
Snowfall at base this season 710cm
Posted on Thursday 19th February 2026 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Nozawa.
It's great to be able to report a good layer of fresh snow this morning.
The ski area is saying that there has been 30-35cm of fresh on upper areas of the mountain. (They're not reporting any from base, but my measurement is 26cm (almost the same as the Japan Meteorological Agency data).
Nice.
Side note: I noticed on the Yuzawa Now report this morning how ski areas aren't generally reporting new snowfall numbers this season. It's definitely a thing. I have noticed the Nozawa website isn't updated as much as it used to be in that respect. It is something I look at twice every day, so it's something I have noticed. I wonder if it is just simply a 'struggling with staffing' kind of issue (which seems to be another widespread phenom). Too much to ask Naski to do the updates, of course...
OK, well, we should expect clearer conditions and sunshine for much of the following three days and some milder conditions over the weekend.
Can we perhaps get back to snow again beyond that? Onegai shimasu!
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Fresh snowfall since yesterday afternoon (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 30cm
Uenotaira: 35cm
Hikage: ?cm
Nagasaka: ?cm
Karasawa: ?cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 265cm
Uenotaira: 240cm
Hikage: 160cm
Nagasaka: 140cm
Karasawa: 120cm
Scheduled lift operations:
All operating as normal
Courses that are not available (when the ski area is operating as normal):
All open
Information on the ski area:
Nozawa Now2025-2026 season |
Data as of Thursday 19th February 2026 Total snowfall at base 710cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 45 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 76cm (on 25th January) November 2025 snowfall 15cm reported on 1 day December 2025 snowfall 134cm reported on 11 days January 2026 snowfall 438cm reported on 22 days February 2026 snowfall 123cm reported on 11 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.