Nozawa Now: Wednesday 20th January 2021
- Jan 20, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 10, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 12cm
Snowfall at base this season 492cm
Posted on Wednesday 20th January 2021 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning and welcome to the Nozawa Now report for the day, though actually I am writing this from... Hakuba! You might have heard of it. It's quite nice, I suppose. ;)
But anyway, I am here after a phone call with a friend who tells me there's about 12cm of snow to report (resort is reporting up to 15cm in upper areas since yesterday afternoon) and a cloudy morning, with light snow lingering higher up. Looks like there's limited visibility on the mountain, pretty good down towards base.
There's not much wind today and it is a cold start. We might get to see sunshine later on... and tomorrow too when it is going to be noticeably warmer.
Not sure on the status of Kamoshika course today - the official site has it as both open and closed in different places. I'm pretty sure that one of those will be correct.
Fresh snowfall recorded by the resort (since yesterday afternoon):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 15cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 10cm
- Hikage (660m): 5cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 5cm
- Karasawa (563m): 0cm
Nozawa Now 2020-2021 season |
Data as of Wednesday 20th January 2021 Total snowfall at base 492cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 25 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 56cm (17th December) November 2020 snowfall 0cm December 2020 snowfall 290cm reported on 12 days January 2021 snowfall 202cm reported on 13 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.