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Nozawa Now: Friday 22nd January 2016

  • Jan 22, 2016
  • 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 180cm

Posted on Friday 22nd January 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


Morning from Nozawa and just a few cm down here at base really with the resort reporting 3-7cm of fresh snowfall since yesterday.


Very light snow falling as I write this with light snow forecast for pretty much all of the day today.


Tomorrow might start off cloudy (maybe even a bit of sunshine according to some forecasts), but by the end of the day it should be snowing and there's a good chance of heavy snowfall going into Sunday as well.


Feels cold this morning and now -2 here in the village and it probably won't change much during the day. Expect Sunday in particular to be colder.


Fingers crossed!


Official snow depths:


Yamabiko: 140cm

Uenotaira: 110cm

Hikage: 65cm

Nagasaka: 55cm

Karasawa: 50cm


New snowfall as reported by the resort since yesterday:


Yamabiko: 5cm

Uenotaira: 7cm

Hikage: 3cm

Nagasaka: 3cm

Karasawa: 3cm



Nozawa Now 2015-2016 season

Data as of Friday 22nd January 2016 Total snowfall at base 180cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 24 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 32cm (29th December) November 2015 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2015 snowfall 100cm reported on 9 days January 2016 snowfall 77cm reported on 14 days




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