Nozawa Now: Friday 26th December 2014
- Dec 26, 2014
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 60cm
Snowfall at base this season 415cm
Posted on Friday 26th December 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Hello from Nozawa and it's one of those exciting mornings when I get to report silly amounts of new snowfall.
So it was snowing yesterday and there was 10-20cm reported over the mountain by the resort (that's the numbers in the brackets below in the 'fresh snow' bit). This morning they report 60cm of fresh on Yamabiko, 70cm on Uenotaira, 45cm on Hikage and Nagasaka and 40cm on Karasawa. Doing a bit of sums, I make that a haul of 90cm on Uenotaira since yesterday.
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I can confirm there has been definitely over 50cm here at base, and I have the prospect of going to have to go out and shovel it around after I post this report. Oh the troubles of living in Nozawa!
Buy yes, forget trying to get exact the numbers are just... big. There's a ton of snow out there again and it will be deep this morning.
Visibility is limited on the upper mountain areas in particular. Goes without saying that while it's totally expected to be stoked by the powder out there, don't get over-excited. Take care. Safety!
What's more, things aren't busy yet. Well they sure didn't seem to be yesterday and this morning seems about the same from what I can see. I expect things to start getting busy from tomorrow and as we approach the New Year holidays.
The sun might join us tomorrow as well with a run of clearer days lined up, and a bit milder too.
December 2014 is treating us well. Let's hope the other months of the season deliver as well.
Fresh snow this morning:
Yamabiko - 60cm (+10cm)
Uenotaira - 70cm (+20cm)
Hikage - 45cm (+20cm)
Nagasaka - 45cm (+20cm)
Karasawa - 40cm (+15cm)
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko - 310cm
Uenotaira - 265cm
Hikage - 220cm
Nagasaka - 215cm
Karasawa - 180cm
Courses open:
All courses are now open except:
Hikage no kabe
Grand Prix course
Jumping Course
Mukoubayashi
Challenge 39
Kandahara West
Kandahara East
Kamoshika Course
Lifts open (subject to weather conditions):
All lifts operating except:
Hikage Number 2 Pair A line
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Data as of Friday 26th December 2014 Total snowfall at base 415cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 12 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 70cm (14th and 18th December) November 2014 snowfall 0cm December 2014 snowfall 415cm reported on 12 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.