Nozawa Now: Wednesday 22nd January 2020
- Jan 22, 2020
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 17cm
Snowfall at base this season 146cm
Posted on Wednesday 22nd January 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Nozawa.
Now that's more like what we expect!
By late yesterday afternoon the resort was reporting another 35cm of fresh snowfall on the top Yamabiko area. 18cm at Uenotaira and 13cm across the lower half of the mountain. They are adding 2-3cm of that overnight since 3pm.
This morning the sun is out and it should be an excellent morning. :)
It has been a cold start to the day, let's hope that it doesn't warm up much. Tomorrow is likely to be milder, perhaps rising to around 6C or so in the village and the chance of some rain (noooooooooo!). Beyond that it should be colder again with what looks like the chance of some more snowfall later on Friday.
Official info is saying that the Usagi course is now open.
Fresh snowfall recorded by resort since yesterday morning:
- Yamabiko (1407m): 37cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 20cm
- Hikage (660m): 16cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 16cm
- Karasawa (563m): 16cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by resort):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 155cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 125cm
- Hikage (660m): 75cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 50cm
- Karasawa (563m): 40cm
All lifts normally operating apart from these lifts:
- Challenge pair
- Utopia pair
- Kandahar pair
- Karasawa pair
All courses open apart from the following courses:
- Kandahar
- Grand Prix
- Mukobayashi
- Hachiman
- Nagasaka link
Nozawa Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Wednesday 22nd January 2020 Total snowfall at base 146cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 17 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 23cm (5th January) November 2019 snowfall 4cm reported on 2 days December 2019 snowfall 33cm reported on 5 days January 2020 snowfall 109cm reported on 10 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.