Nozawa Now: Friday 1st January 2016
- Jan 1, 2016
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 8, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 17cm
Snowfall at base this season 120cm
Posted on Friday 1st January 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Happy New Year!
And it is a snowy start to 2016 with 20cm on fresh snow on the upper slopes since yesterday evening and snow down to the village.
The snow is expected to stop during today, perhaps around lunchtime, and then we might get some sunshine later on. But it should be keeping cold. Over the coming days though a bit of a warm up is still forecast of course we hope it stays on the colder side.
For now though it's a good New Year morning and I hope you can enjoy it. I'm off to rest my head a bit after last night!
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko: 100cm
Uenotaira: 95cm
Hikage: 60cm
Nagasaka: 50cm
Karasawa: 40cm
New snowfall as reported by the resort since yesterday:
Yamabiko: 20cm
Uenotaira: 20cm
Hikage: 20cm
Nagasaka: 20cm
Karasawa: 20cm
All lifts now planned to be operating except:
- Kandahar pair
- Nagasaka Four
Courses planned to be open:
- Yamabiko A course
- Yamabiko B course
- Yamabiko C course
- Yamabiko D course
- Yamabiko E course
- Paradise
- Kokenashi
- Uenotaira
- Bunabayashi
- Mizunashi A
- Mizunashi B
- Yunomine A
- Yunomine B
- Rinkan
- Challenge
- Hikage
- Ushikubi
- Isemiya
- Kitsune
- Nagasaka connection
Nozawa Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Friday 1st January 2016 Total snowfall at base 120cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 11 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 17cm reported on 1 day |
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.