Nozawa Now: Saturday 24th December 2016
- Dec 24, 2016
- 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 87cm
Posted on Saturday 24th December 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Ah yes, we like to see snow falling.
It's not the driest and fluffiest variety of snow, but it sure is better than rain and so a big improvement on yesterday.
There is the best part of 10cm of fresh snow on the ground at base level this morning and 25cm of fresh being reported by the resort up top.
Lower courses are not yet able to re-open but they will surely do so just as soon as there's enough snow.
Tomorrow the forecast tells us to expect clearer skies and sunshine. Look for the next snow (after today) to be falling around Tuesday.
Fingers crossed we can get a fairly decent amount out of today. Conditions should be fun up there on that there mountain. I'm going to go and check for myself.
Until tomorrow...
Lifts that are planned to be operating:
All lifts operating except for:
- Hikage quad
- Hikage triple
- Kandahar pair
- Nagasaka quad
- Nagasaka triple
- Nagasaka pair
- Karasawa pair
Courses that are planned to be open:
- Yamabiko A course
- Yamabiko B course
- Yamabiko C course
- Yamabiko D course
- Yamabiko E course
- Kokenashi course
- Uenotaira course
- Paradise course
- Paradise link
- Mizunashi A
- Mizunashi B
- Bunabayashi course
- Yunomine A course
- Yunomine B course
Official snow depths:
- Yamabiko: 90cm
- Uenotaira: 50cm
- Hikage: 20cm
- Nagasaka: 20cm
- Karasawa: 10cm
Fresh snow reported by resort since yesterday morning:
- Yamabiko: 25cm
- Uenotaira: 15cm
- Hikage: 11cm
- Nagasaka: 11cm
- Karasawa: 11cm
Nozawa Now 2016-2017 season |
Data as of Saturday 24th December 2016 Total snowfall at base 87cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 11 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 24cm (11th December) November 2016 snowfall 2cm reported on 2 days December 2016 snowfall 85cm 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.