Nozawa Now: Friday 25th March 2016
- Mar 25, 2016
- 3 min read
Updated: Nov 8, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 22cm
Snowfall at base this season 472cm
Posted on Friday 25th March 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Nozawa and I have excellent news this morning folks!
It has been snowing and we have received a 'mid-winter' like amount of snow as well with an impressive 35cm of fresh snow on the top Yamabiko runs and 30cm on the Uenotaira area I said 'mid-winter' like, I should also add 'Nozawa-like' as that is the kind of number we are often used to here.
But anyway, I suspect there was a mini-race to the gondola to get up there this morning and I am certainly going to be going up myself to play in all that snow.
This fresh snow over the last few days will certainly help freshen things up for the weekend as well, which is just... brilliant. It should be sunny tomorrow too.
Can you tell I'm happy?
From tomorrow there's more sun than snow on the forecasts, so could this latest delivery be the last significant snow of the season? There's a good chance.
It does look like things will generally start warming up from this weekend and increase more as we get into next week.
For now though, hope you can come to enjoy this fresh snow we have.
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko: 175cm
Uenotaira: 95cm
Hikage: 40cm
Nagasaka: 35cm
Karasawa: 0cm
New snowfall as reported by the resort since yesterday:
Yamabiko: 35cm
Uenotaira: 30cm
Hikage: 30cm
The following courses are closed:
Skyline
Paradise connection
Schneider
Utopia Course 2
Kurokura
Ushikubi
Grand Prix
Jumping
Hachiman
Mukoubayashi
Kandahar West
Kandahar East
Kamoshika
Tanuki
Kitsune
Usagi
Karasawa
Lifts planned to be rested today:
Yunomine pair
Mizunashi triple
Challenge pair
Utopia pair
Kandahar pair
Hikage Number 2 pair A line
Nagasaka Four
Nagasaka Gondola connecting pair
Karasawa pair
Nozawa Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Friday 25th March 2016 Total snowfall at base 472cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 50 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 162cm reported on 12 days March 2016 snowfall 75cm reported on 7 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.