Nozawa Now: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
- Jan 23, 2018
- 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 390cm
Posted on Tuesday 23rd January 2018 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Did you see the images from the Kanto area last night with all that snow falling in Tokyo? It's amazing how just 5-10cm or so can cause so many problems. Or is it amazing how we can cope with such a lot of snow when it arrives. Of course, for us here in Nozawa 10cm is on the lower end of a decent delivery of snowfall and we can cope with metres in a week.
Talking of which...
We also have 9cm here since yesterday but this morning curiously started with generally fine weather. Some low cloud and fog covering lower base areas still, but there was a bit of sun up top earlier - though it is already clouding over. And we do have that snow set to start again soon.
And most importantly the forecast still shows heavy snowfall over the next few days with snow clouds remaining over Nozawa through the weekend.
A nice consistent 30-40cm of light dry fluffy flakes each day please.
I'll update you again tomorrow.
Nozawa Now 2017-2018 season |
Data as of Tuesday 23rd January 2018 Total snowfall at base 390cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 30 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 53cm (27th December) November 2017 snowfall 21cm reported on 2 days December 2017 snowfall 217cm reported on 16 days January 2018 snowfall 152cm reported on 12 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.