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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




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