Nozawa Now: Tuesday 26th January 2016
- Jan 26, 2016
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 8, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 4cm
Snowfall at base this season 209cm
Posted on Tuesday 26th January 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Nozawa and an early report this morning because....well, I want to get up there early! To do research for these reports of course. ;)
But yes as we were expecting there's blue skies over Nozawa. Some cloud not too far off but over Nozawa it's blue lots of shadows being case by the mountain early on. It is going to be a very fine morning. Since my report yesterday there has been another 5-10cm of snow across the mountain and it today has started off very cold though the sun should take some of the sharpness off that during the day. Still, I'm going to be layering up just in case, don't like cold spoiling a morning.
Tomorrow might see sunshine as well though is forecast to be more cloudy than today.
Thursday is expected to get slightly warmer and there's some rain lurking on the forecasts as well which isn't something we want to hear. Beyond that we should be back to snow falling come Saturday morning.
So for the next few days clearer skies. Sounds good to me, I hope you can enjoy it too.
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko: 150cm
Uenotaira: 120cm
Hikage: 95cm
Nagasaka: 75cm
Karasawa: 65cm
New snowfall as reported by the resort since yesterday:
Yamabiko: 10cm
Uenotaira: 10cm
Hikage: 5cm
Nagasaka: 5cm
Karasawa: 5cm
All lifts now planned to be operating except:
- Yunomine pair
- Mizunashi pair
- Challenge pair
- Utopia pair
- Kandahar pair
- Hikage Number 2 pair B line
The following courses are not currently open:
- Paradise connection
- Challenge 39
- Hikage no kabe
- Grand Prix
- Hachiman
- Mukoubayashi
- Kandahar West
- Kandahar East
Nozawa Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Tuesday 26th January 2016 Total snowfall at base 209cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 28 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 32cm (29th December) November 2015 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2015 snowfall 100cm reported on 9 days January 2016 snowfall 106cm reported on 18 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.