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Nozawa Now: Tuesday 19th January 2016

  • Jan 19, 2016
  • 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 151cm

Posted on Tuesday 19th January 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


Morning from Nozawa where... it's sunny.


Hmmm, where be the storm?


We did get some snowfall yesterday with the resort yesterday afternoon reporting 3-5cm across the mountain, but no more snowfall this morning and as I said sun along with some blue skies over us at the start of the day.


Good news this morning is that the upper parts of Skyline are once again open (lower part still closed) as well as Schneider and Kamoshika course.


A good storm for a few days would hopefully get most of the rest of them open... it is still being promised by the forecast. Proper heavy snowfall is expected tonight and snow clouds due to be over Nozawa and the region through the week and over the weekend.


Come on!!!


Official snow depths:


Yamabiko: 100cm

Uenotaira: 95cm

Hikage: 35cm

Nagasaka: 35cm

Karasawa: 20cm


New snowfall as reported by the resort since yesterday morning:


Yamabiko: 5cm

Uenotaira: 3cm

Hikage: 5cm

Nagasaka: 5cm

Karasawa: 5cm



Nozawa Now 2015-2016 season

Data as of Tuesday 19th January 2016 Total snowfall at base 151cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 21 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 32cm (29th December) November 2015 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2015 snowfall 100cm reported on 9 days January 2016 snowfall 48cm reported on 11 days




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