Nozawa Now: Thursday 26th March 2015
- Mar 26, 2015
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 1044cm
Posted on Thursday 26th March 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Some more snow yesterday and overnight, but not that much to add to what we got before.
But it sure was a good late March day yesterday!
This morning sees the start of the return to spring. It's cold to start off with and there's some cloud hanging on early morning, but there's also blue sky and the forecast for today is clear and sunny with a high temp. of around +5C later on this afternoon. Then gradually warming up over the weekend and into next week.
The forecast for the week ahead is actually mostly a mix of sun and cloud with the warming trend continuing.
Fresh snow to report since yesterday (reported by resort):
Yamabiko - 10cm
Uenotaira - 10cm
Hikage - 5cm
Nagasaka - 5cm
Karasawa - 2cm
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko - 445cm
Uenotaira - 375cm
Hikage - 220m
Nagasaka - 220cm
Karasawa - 150cm
Courses open:
All courses are open except:
Jumping Course
Grand Prix
Challenge 39
Kandahar Course East
Kandahar Course West
Lifts open (subject to change):
All lifts open except:
Yunomine pair
Mizunashi triple
Challenge pair
Utopia pair
Hikage Number 2 Pair A line
Nozawa Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Thursday 26th March 2015 Total snowfall at base 1044cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 55 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 70cm (14th and 18th December) November 2014 snowfall 0cm December 2014 snowfall 437cm reported on 14 days January 2015 snowfall 314cm reported on 19 days February 2015 snowfall 215cm reported on 15 days March 2015 snowfall 78cm 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.