Nozawa Now: Friday 25th January 2019
- Jan 25, 2019
- 3 min read
Updated: Nov 10, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 22cm
Snowfall at base this season 547cm
Posted on Friday 25th January 2019 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Just been out doing some snow shovelling. Good exercise. No sexy shiny snow blower machine for me. And I thought I'd get it out of the way before the weekend snow arrives.
It is a mostly cloudy and grey morning, though there are a few small breaks in the cloud in places especially in base areas. Earlier light snowfall has stopped.
Lots of snow being reported by the resort again with over 40cm from Uenotaira (15-20cm of that from during the daytime yesterday). I have less to report myself, perhaps wind affecting numbers there. Whatever, there's some very fine snow to be enjoyed right now.
Nasuki (or Nasuki as I call him/her) - everyone's fave bright green vegetable mascot character that enjoys skiing - looks very excited about the upcoming heavy snow. As am I. It's due to be snowing tomorrow, getting heavier later in the day and building up to some potentially impressively heavy snow overnight into Sunday. Nice.
And as my Madarao Now friend just posted in their report, that may well be enough to put some people off coming this weekend. So, potentially less people than normal for a weekend. We'll just have to see.
Fresh snowfall reported by the ski resort (since yesterday morning):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 31cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 42cm
- Hikage (660m): 33cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 32cm
- Karasawa (563m): 20cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by resort):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 320cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 300cm
- Hikage (660m): 220cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 200cm
- Karasawa (563m): 165cm
All lifts apart from the following planned to be operating:
- Yunomine pair
- Mizunashi triple
- Challenge pair
- Utopia pair
- Kandahar pair (open for general public on 12th Feb and 1st Mar 2019)
All courses open apart from the following planned to be open:
- Grand Prix
- Kandahar (open for general public on 12th Feb and 1st Mar 2019)
Nozawa Now 2018-2019 season |
Data as of Friday 25th January 2019 Total snowfall at base 547cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 33 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 48cm (9th January) November 2018 snowfall 2cm reported on 1 day December 2018 snowfall 202cm reported on 13 days January 2019 snowfall 343cm reported on 19 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.