Nozawa Now: Thursday 23rd March 2017
- Mar 23, 2017
- 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 794cm
Posted on Thursday 23rd March 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Nozawa.
I am writing my report this morning from.... Tokyo, so I'm going on what I have been told on the phone and what the official website is saying this morning. Please keep that in mind!
Looks like there's quite a lot of thin cloud around this morning and an overcast kind of start to the day. The resort was reporting a temperature of -5C on Yamabiko as of 7:15am and... actually, they haven't updated the info for the lower areas yet. I can't confidently put in the new snowfall reported by the resort this morning either as I don't have what they reported yesterday. Oh dear, perhaps I should avoid a report all together this morning! Many apologies. If anyone reading this wants to fill me in, please do contact and we'll happily update!
The forecast says there might be a bit more snow overnight tonight.
Fresh snow reported by resort since yesterday morning:
- Yamabiko: 5+cm
- Uenotaira: 5+cm
- Hikage: ?cm
- Nagasaka: ?cm
- Karasawa: ?cm
Official snow depths:
- Yamabiko: 405cm
- Uenotaira: 310cm
- Hikage: 165cm
- Nagasaka: 155cm
- Karasawa: 95cm
Lifts operations:
- All lifts operating except:
- Yunomine pair (usually closed on weekdays)
- Mizunashi triple (usually closed on weekdays)
- Challenge pair (usually closed on weekdays)
- Utopia pair (usually closed on weekdays)
Courses not open today are:
- Grand Prix
- Hachiman
- Kandahar East
- Kandahar West
Nozawa Now 2016-2017 season |
Data as of Thursday 23rd March 2017 Total snowfall at base 794cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 64 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 366cm reported on 20 days February 2017 snowfall 196cm reported on 19 days March 2017 snowfall 69cm reported on 9 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.