Nozawa Now: Tuesday 24th December 2024
- Dec 24, 2024
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 23cm
Snowfall at base this season 180cm
Posted on Tuesday 24th December 2024 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
The popular Skyline course is open from today!
Basically, there's now only a handful of runs that are now not available at Nozawa Onsen which is just brilliant considering it is not yet Christmas!
Lovely.
We can't really ask for much more.
The official snowfall numbers for the lower areas remain the same as they were yesterday morning. I'll post them again today (below), but they don't jive with my measurements. I think they just haven't been updated. (I might be wrong). Sorry for the continued 'thinking aloud' stuff.
My measurement since yesterday morning, by the way, is 23cm. Most of that arrived after it went dark last night and overnight.
Whatever, nerding out over numbers aside... we have had new snow and we are all happy! :)
I have some, er, 'Santa duties' tomorrow morning and so my report might only appear lunchtime or possibly even later.
Right now, forecasts are pointing to snow during today but a sunny start to tomorrow morning.
Fresh snowfall since yesterday afternoon (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 47cm
Uenotaira: 25cm
Hikage: 40cm
Nagasaka: 40cm
Karasawa: 20cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 185cm
Uenotaira: 145cm
Hikage: 95cm
Nagasaka: 95cm
Karasawa: 75cm
All lifts apart from the following are scheduled to be operating:
Challenge pair
Utopia pair
Courses not yet open:
Grand Prix
Jumping
Bunabayashi
Challenge 39
Nozawa Now 2024-2025 season |
Data as of Tuesday 24th December 2024 Total snowfall at base 180cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 17 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 33cm (22nd December) November 2024 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2024 snowfall 177cm reported on 16 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.