Nozawa Now: Wednesday 1st January 2020
- Jan 1, 2020
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 10cm
Snowfall at base this season 47cm
Posted on Wednesday 1st January 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Happy New Year from myself and everyone else at SnowJapan.
Here's to being able to report lots of snow! Nature need to co-operate for that to happen.
And after a bit of a dodgy start after the finer weather starting the day yesterday, snow started falling and it felt like winter again.
Not as much snow as we would like, around 10cm or so at base areas, with hopefully double and more than that up on the top areas; so it should be a fine morning. (The official site snowfall numbers appear to be a bit wonky this morning).
Actually there's some breaks in the cloud now and even some blue sky - but that shouldn't last all day as further snowfall is due this afternoon, through tonight and tomorrow which sounds good.
Have a fine New Years Day!
Lift operations and open courses appear to remain unchanged. Basically the upper areas of the resort are open, down to Paradise and Mizunashi runs. The Skyline course is not yet open as well as chunks of lower areas of the resort. The Hikage and Nagasaka lower courses are open.... the latter as a connecting course.
I wouldn't be surprised if a bit more opened up today.
You need to get a Gondola back down to base from the open upper areas as you cannot yet ski/snowboard down.
A few more snowy days and hopefully the resort will get to be fully open. I'm totally looking forward to that!
Fresh snowfall recorded by resort since yesterday morning:
- Yamabiko (1407m): ?cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): ?cm
- Hikage (660m): ?cm
- Nagasaka (615m): ?cm
- Karasawa (563m): 0cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by resort):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 80cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 60cm
- Hikage (660m): 30cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 25cm
- Karasawa (563m): -cm
These lifts plan to be operating:
- Nagasaka Gondola
- Hikage Gondola
- Yamabiko Four
- Yamabiko Number 2 Four
- Uenotaira Four
- Paradise Four
- Skyline Connecting pair
- Yunomine pair
- Hikage triple
- Hikage Four
- Nagasaka triple
- Shinyu pair
- Yu Road
These courses plan to be open:
- Yamabiko A
- Yamabiko B
- Yamabiko C
- Yamabiko D
- Yamabiko E
- Kogenashi A
- Kogenashi B
- Uenotaira
- Bunabayashi
- Yunomine A
- Yunomine B
- Mizunashi A
- Mizunashi B
- Hikage
- Kumataka (as a connecting course)
Nozawa Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Wednesday 1st January 2020 Total snowfall at base 47cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 8 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 20cm (28th December) November 2019 snowfall 4cm reported on 2 days December 2019 snowfall 33cm reported on 5 days January 2020 snowfall 10cm 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.