Nozawa Now: Wednesday 25th December 2013
- Dec 25, 2013
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 7, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 10cm
Snowfall at base this season 110cm
Posted on Wednesday 25th December 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning and Happy Christmas from Nozawa Onsen. For the most part it's just a normal day here, so there's no mad Christmas Rush on the slopes - though perhaps more actually more than just any other Wednesday.
For those of you getting out onto the slopes of Nozawa on Christmas Day this year, you should find up to 15cm of fresh snow to play in. The resort is reporting 10cm at base and top courses, 15cm on fresh snowfall in the Uenotaira area. That pushes Yamabiko up to an official snow depth of 190cm... nearly hitting 2m. It's a chilly -7 degrees up there, and more like -2C here in the village as of 8:30am. For the moment snow is not falling and it is just cloudy.
Clearer skies are still forecast for later on today so we may be on for a clear up. Tomorrow should start off cloudy but again we might get to see the sun, and it should be milder than it is today.
Next snowfall still scheduled for overnight tomorrow night into Friday, and it's looking like it should get really cold for the weekend.
Have fun out there!
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko - 190cm
Uenotaira - 160cm
Hikage - 90cm
Nagasaka - 75cm
Karasawa - 55cm
Lifts
All lifts operating apart from:
Kandahar pair
Hikage No2 pair B
Karasawa pair
Courses
All courses open apart from:
Hachiman
Kandahar East
Kandahar West
Nozawa Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Wednesday 25th December 2013 Total snowfall at base 110cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 12 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 30cm (22nd December) November 2013 snowfall 15cm reported on 2 days December 2013 snowfall 95cm reported on 10 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.