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Nozawa Now: Saturday 20th January 2024

  • Jan 20, 2024
  • 2 min read

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


New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 269cm

Posted on Saturday 20th January 2024 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


Clouds hung around yesterday rather than a general clear up, and we have another cloudy kind of start to the weekend. Visibility in some places mid-mountain very limited, but it might be an early morning thing, with low clouds over the valley.


Perhaps there might be a little rain or snow later on tonight. I'm hoping the former will hold off. (Forecasts are varied/mixed). We might not be so lucky during the day tomorrow, unfortunately. These milder spells between the snow are... kind of annoying.


Anyway, Tuesday onwards is looking promising with a few days of snowfall currently on the forecast. A full on winter storm would be most welcome.


There will be a lot of people around this weekend. I hope you have a good one if you are here!


(Go say hi to Naski!)


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

Yamabiko: 0cm

Uenotaira: 0cm

Hikage: 0cm

Nagasaka: 0cm

Karasawa: 0cm


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

Yamabiko: 190cm

Uenotaira: 150cm

Hikage: 100cm

Nagasaka: 85cm

Karasawa: 65cm


All lifts apart from the following are scheduled to be operating:

Kandahar


All courses apart from the following are now open:

Kandahar

Challenge 39

Mukobayashi

Hachiman



Nozawa Now 2023-2024 season

Data as of Saturday 20th January 2024 Total snowfall at base 269cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 21 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 64cm (23rd December) November 2023 snowfall 21cm reported on 2 days December 2023 snowfall 93cm reported on 10 days January 2024 snowfall 155cm reported on 9 days




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