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Nozawa Now: Tuesday 1st February 2022

  • Feb 1, 2022
  • 2 min read

Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano


New snowfall at base 5cm
Snowfall at base this season 676cm

Posted on Tuesday 1st February 2022 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


It's quickly turning into a fine morning with the sun out. Still some cloud around after some modest snowfall overnight, and there's more cloud due to move in later on today. Possibly with heavy snow again tonight. Sounds good to me, that.


There's also some decent snowfall likely through the coming week, particularly over the weekend. So February looks set to start in good shape.


Fresh snowfall recorded by the ski area (total since yesterday afternoon):

- Yamabiko (1615m): 10cm

- Uenotaira (1407m): 12cm

- Hikage (660m): 5cm

- Nagasaka (616m): 5cm

- Karasawa (563m): ?cm


Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):


- Yamabiko (1615m): 345cm

- Uenotaira (1407m): 295cm

- Hikage (660m): 290cm

- Nagasaka (616m): 260cm

- Karasawa (563m): 175cm


All courses apart from the following plan to be open:


- Yunomine A

- Grand Prix


Planned operating lifts (this is general info - for any specifics see top report):


- Subject to weather conditions all lifts that plan to be open should be ok. See above main report for specific info for this morning.

- The top Yamabiko A-D courses close at 3:20pm until 27th March (at 3:10pm after that).

- Skyline course closes at 4:10pm.



Nozawa Now 2021-2022 season

Data as of Tuesday 1st February 2022 Total snowfall at base 676cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 36 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 75cm (31st December) November 2021 snowfall 15cm reported on 2 days December 2021 snowfall 272cm reported on 11 days January 2022 snowfall 384cm reported on 22 days February 2022 snowfall 5cm reported on 1 day




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