Nozawa Now: Monday 20th December 2021
- Dec 20, 2021
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 10cm
Snowfall at base this season 80cm
Posted on Monday 20th December 2021 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Up to 25cm of fresh snowfall reported by the ski area since yesterday.
More courses are being opened including Schneider. With gradual snowfall across the coming week, hopefully we'll gradually be approaching a full open in the near future. As you can see on the webcam photo below, Naski is looking very green and happy this morning. Always good to see Naski.
There's a lot of cloud around this morning as the early morning snow eases off, but it might well be gradually clearing up as the day goes on. And sun is forecast for tomorrow; and milder too. Further fresh snow is due around Wednesday and then at the weekend.
Information checked each morning. All subject to change.
Fresh snowfall recorded by the ski area (since yesterday morning):
- Yamabiko (1615m): 25cm
- Uenotaira (1407m): 22cm
- Hikage (660m): 5cm
- Nagasaka (616m): 5cm
- Karasawa (563m): -cm (not reporting yet)
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
- Yamabiko (1615m): 120cm
- Uenotaira (1407m): 110cm
- Hikage (660m): 50cm
- Nagasaka (616m): 45cm
- Karasawa (563m): -cm (not reporting yet)
Planned operating lifts:
- Nagasaka Gondola
- Hikage Gondola
- Yamabiko Four lift
- Yamabiko Number 2 Four lift
- Uenotaira quad
- Paradise quad
- Skyline connecting lift
- Hikage triple lift
- Nagasaka triple lift
- Yu Road
Courses currently open:
- Yamabiko A
- Yamabiko B
- Yamabiko C
- Yamabiko D
- Yamabiko E
- Uenotaira
- Kokenashi A/B
- Paradise
- Rinkan (Forest)
- Schneider
- Challenge
- Utopia A
- Nagasaka connecting
- Kumataka
- Nagasaka and Hikage runs open as connecting courses
Nozawa Now 2021-2022 season |
Data as of Monday 20th December 2021 Total snowfall at base 80cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 8 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 34cm (18th December) November 2021 snowfall 15cm reported on 2 days December 2021 snowfall 65cm reported on 6 days |
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.