Nozawa Now: Tuesday 21st January 2014
- Jan 21, 2014
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 323cm
Posted on Tuesday 21st January 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Yes, yesterday was a very fine day after that very decent amount of snowfall.
Snow clouds moved back in though and this morning there's some new cm to report from just a few at base to 10cm on the top Yamabiko runs. It wasn't as cold overnight and actually now the temperature is just under 0C though it should stay around there for the day and tomorrow should be cooler.
It's snowing very lightly here as I write this and a look at the cams shows very poor visibility up on the mountain - perhaps snowing more heavily up there. Unconfirmed! Thick fog seems to be covering the top half. It should be snowing on and off, hopefully more on than off, for the day and also tomorrow.
One thing that we have lacked this season is consistent full-on conditions... like what we had the other day, but regularly and continuing for days. We could do with some of that.
But anyway. Yes, later on in the week a warm spell is forecast. Sunny and warmer on Friday and there's even a chance of some rain in the village at the weekend but fingers crossed even if we get that it won't last long and turn into snow. Let's forget about that until later in the week!
For now, conditions should still be really good again today. Just know the layout and where you're going because visibility is very limited up there.
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko - 280cm
Uenotaira - 245cm
Hikage - 170cm
Nagasaka - 160cm
Karasawa - 110cm
Lifts
All lifts operating except:
Yunomine pair
Mizunashi triple
Challenge pair
Utopia pair
Hikage Number 2 pair B
Courses
All courses open
Nozawa Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Tuesday 21st January 2014 Total snowfall at base 323cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 28 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 45cm (10th January) November 2013 snowfall 15cm reported on 2 days December 2013 snowfall 100cm reported on 11 days January 2014 snowfall 208cm reported on 15 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.