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Nozawa Now: Saturday 1st February 2025

  • Feb 1, 2025
  • 2 min read

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


New snowfall at base 12cm
Snowfall at base this season 545cm

Posted on Saturday 1st February 2025 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


Another layer of snow since yesterday, but it has gradually eased off around base this morning.


The next snow is due going into Tuesday - and it looks like there should be a lot of it over at least a period of several days.


Before then, we might get some sun at times particularly tomorrow.


I missed the daytime snowfall numbers yesterday, so the fresh snowfall numbers from the ski area below are from 3pm yesterday.


Fresh snowfall since yesterday afternoon (as reported by the ski area):

Yamabiko: 25cm

Uenotaira: 22cm

Hikage: 15cm

Nagasaka: 13cm

Karasawa: 10cm


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

Yamabiko: 305cm

Uenotaira: 260cm

Hikage: 200cm

Nagasaka: 190cm

Karasawa: 145cm


Lifts:

All scheduled lifts are operating as planned

The Utopia pair lift and Challenge pair lift are normally closed on weekdays


Courses:

All courses are available apart from Mukobayashi and Kurokura



Nozawa Now 2024-2025 season

Data as of Saturday 1st February 2025 Total snowfall at base 545cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 42 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 43cm (31st January) November 2024 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2024 snowfall 291cm reported on 21 days January 2025 snowfall 239cm reported on 19 days February 2025 snowfall 12cm reported on 1 day




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