Nozawa Now: Wednesday 24th February 2016
- Feb 24, 2016
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 12cm
Snowfall at base this season 392cm
Posted on Wednesday 24th February 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Morning from Nozawa and we have fresh snow! (* Not that such a thing should be much of a surprise for February in Nozawa!)
But yes it's good to have 10+cm of soft snow underfoot this morning and the resort reports 10-15cm across the mountain, and it is still snowing now.
Hopefully there'll be more cm of snow to come today and overnight into tomorrow as well with some forecasts telling us to expect snow on Friday too. And then at the end of the weekend and through Monday.
Could we be on for a very happy and snowy end to February and beginning of March? Wouldn't that be just what we want!
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko: 150cm
Uenotaira: 115cm
Hikage: 80cm
Nagasaka: 65cm
Karasawa: 55cm
New snowfall as reported by the resort since yesterday:
Yamabiko: 10cm
Uenotaira: 10cm
Hikage: 15cm
Nagasaka: 15cm
Karasawa: 15cm
All courses open except:
Paradise connection
Kurokura
Grand Prix
Hachiman
Mukoubayashi
Kandahar West
Kandahar East
Lifts planned to be rested today:
Yunomine pair
Mizunashi triple
Challenge pair
Utopia pair
Kandahar pair
Hikage Number 2 pair B line
There is currently an issue with the 'Yu Road' which means that for the time being it will be open going towards the lifts from 8am to 2pm and then coming back down towards the village from 2pm until 5:10pm.
Nozawa Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Wednesday 24th February 2016 Total snowfall at base 392cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 42 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 40cm (18th February) November 2015 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2015 snowfall 100cm reported on 9 days January 2016 snowfall 132cm reported on 21 days February 2016 snowfall 157cm reported on 11 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.