Nozawa Now: Monday 23rd December 2024
- Dec 23, 2024
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 10cm
Snowfall at base this season 157cm
Posted on Monday 23rd December 2024 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Nozawa.
Some more fresh snow to report and for now a largely cloudy start to the day. The ski area is saying that there is again the chance of some limited lift disruption today due to strong winds. Hopefully not.
Heavy snow might be happening again tonight into tomorrow, with some clearer skies currently forecast for Christmas Day.
Yesterday, later in the day, the ski area edited their overnight numbers (3pm to 8am) for the lower Hikage and Nagasaka areas from 30cm to 40cm. I'm not sure why they did that, and it made me feel like I should wait longer to post my own reports (for official numbers to 'settle in') if that might happen again. But this morning those numbers seem to remain the same, and differ from my actual observations. (My measurement at base is 10cm; JMA reports 8cm over 24 hours). So right now I'm not 100% confident those official numbers are being updated properly, somehow. I want to make the point that I am totally not at all implying this is intentionally misleading. I'm just a bit confused.
Anyway, I'll going to keep my beady eye on that situation...
Enough of that. We have good snow and it's fun!
Fresh snowfall since yesterday afternoon (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 27cm
Uenotaira: 26cm
Hikage: 40cm (?)
Nagasaka: 40cm (?)
Karasawa: 20cm (?)
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 155cm
Uenotaira: 140cm
Hikage: 95cm
Nagasaka: 90cm
Karasawa: 85cm
All lifts apart from the following are scheduled to be operating:
Challenge pair
Utopia pair
Courses not yet open:
Skyline
Grand Prix
Jumping
Bunabayashi
Karasawa
Hachiman
Karasawa link
Kamoshika
Tanuki
Usagi
Nozawa Now 2024-2025 season |
Data as of Monday 23rd December 2024 Total snowfall at base 157cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 16 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 33cm (22nd December) November 2024 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2024 snowfall 154cm 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.