Nozawa Now: Tuesday 26th February 2013
- Feb 26, 2013
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 15cm
Snowfall at base this season 780cm
Weather overview Clear
Wind Light
Temperature -
Visibility
Excellent
Posted on Tuesday 26th February 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Eyes were almost glued to the windows this morning at breakfast time, because we have an absolutely stunning day today in Nozawa Onsen. A crystal clear blue sky, white heavily snow frosted trees and perfect fresh snow, what more could you want?
15cm of fresh snow reported over the resort since yesterday.
The groomed runs are silky smooth corduroy and very fast with cold overnight temperatures. It will be a challenge to find a single patch of ice in the mountain today so the quality of riding will be very high. Through the trees will also deliver some of the best turns of your life with dry knee deep powder. Can you tell I'm excited.
Winds are light and crowd levels are low.
Yesterday continued on the recent form of day after day excellent skiing and boarding. We saw deep windblown stashes of powder and the temperatures were very cold. Light snow showers persisted most of the day and the sun even made a brief appearance during the afternoon. Late February this year is really turning it on.
Looking at what's in store for the next couple of days we should see some warmer possibly almost spring skiing conditions for around three days before the freezing level takes a dive back down to around sea level once again on Friday night. Snow is predicted around this time but freeze thaw conditions means the fresh snow will be unstable sitting on what will be an icy base layer.
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Lifts operating:
All lifts operating except
Yunomine Pair
Mizunashi Triple
Challenge Pair
Utopia Pair
Hikage Number 2 Pair B line
Courses open:
All courses open except
Grand Prix
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko
420cm
Uenotaira
390cm
Hikage
270cm
Nagasaka
255cm
Karasawa
180cm
Nozawa Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Tuesday 26th February 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 780cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 50 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 60cm (on 4th January) November 2012 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2012 snowfall 213cm reported on 15 days January 2013 snowfall 311cm reported on 18 days February 2013 snowfall 253cm reported on 16 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.