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Nozawa Now: Saturday 21st January 2017

  • Jan 21, 2017
  • 2 min read

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


New snowfall at base 9cm
Snowfall at base this season 398cm

Posted on Saturday 21st January 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


Morning from Nozawa.


Fresh snow on the ground again with 5-10cm being reported by the resort and snow continuing to fall now though it's not expected to last the day... but also be back later on in the daytime tomorrow.


It's not particularly cold - though more so than yesterday which as expected ended up fairly mild.


There's a bit of wind about this morning too though not enough to cause lift operations any issues at the moment and hopefully it will stay that way.


Tomorrow morning there might be some sun and clearer skies before the snow clouds move back in.


Fresh snow reported by resort since yesterday morning:

- Yamabiko: 10cm

- Uenotaira: 5cm

- Hikage: 10cm

- Nagasaka: 10cm

- Karasawa: 5cm


Official snow depths:

- Yamabiko: 305cm

- Uenotaira: 230cm

- Hikage: 180cm

- Nagasaka: 165cm

- Karasawa: 145cm


Lifts operations:

All lifts appear to be operating apart from:

- Kandahar pair


Most courses at Nozawa Onsen are now open. Courses not open are:

- Grand Prix

- Kandahar East

- Kandahar West

- Kamoshika



Nozawa Now 2016-2017 season

Data as of Saturday 21st January 2017 Total snowfall at base 398cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 29 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 52cm (14th January) November 2016 snowfall 2cm reported on 2 days December 2016 snowfall 161cm reported on 14 days January 2017 snowfall 235cm reported on 13 days




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