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Nozawa Now: Friday 24th February 2017

  • Feb 24, 2017
  • 2 min read

Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano


New snowfall at base 10cm
Snowfall at base this season 721cm

Posted on Friday 24th February 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


Hello from here in Nozawa.


And once again we can quickly (try to) forget the rain with a fresh blanket of snow this morning.


The resort is reporting 10cm across the mountain (15cm at Uenotaira) and indeed I agree. It is not top season dry snow, but sure beats the wet of rain. Probably not going to last long today with the snow clouds due to retreat and while we may get a slight bit of snow again overnight tonight, I think there's probably a decent chance of some sunshine tomorrow.


Fresh snow reported by resort since yesterday morning:

- Yamabiko: 10cm

- Uenotaira: 15cm

- Hikage: 10cm

- Nagasaka: 10cm

- Karasawa: 10cm


Official snow depths:

- Yamabiko: 365cm

- Uenotaira: 280cm

- Hikage: 190cm

- Nagasaka: 185cm

- Karasawa: 145cm


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



Nozawa Now 2016-2017 season

Data as of Friday 24th February 2017 Total snowfall at base 721cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 54 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 192cm reported on 18 days




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