Nozawa Now: Monday 27th December 2021
- Dec 27, 2021
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 34cm
Snowfall at base this season 148cm
Posted on Monday 27th December 2021 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Nozawa.
Lots more snow to report along with cold conditions and it continues to fall this morning and due to continue into tomorrow.
Yesterday afternoon the ski area was reporting 30cm on the top area and this morning there's an additional 38cm. That adds up to 68cm, which sounds fantastic, of course. I believe an investigation is in order!
But. I'm a bit confused with the official snowfall numbers these last few days. When I checked yesterday morning, the ski area was reporting 20-30cm on the lower areas. But later in the day, that same number (the previous day to 8am yesterday number) had changed to 40-45cm. I'm really not sure what is going on there and will try to find out. I'll ask Naski. And I'm going to keep an eye on the numbers. I like to believe the official numbers and hope I'll continue to be able to do so.
Nerd hat off, just lots of snow is of course great news. And conditions should be excellent. Visibility limited especially at the top of the mountain.
I am hearing that the Skyline course should be open soon... though it doesn't seem to be tagged as open this morning.
Information checked each morning. All subject to change.
Fresh snowfall recorded by the ski area (since yesterday morning):
- Yamabiko (1615m): 68cm
- Uenotaira (1407m): 59cm
- Hikage (660m): 60cm
- Nagasaka (616m): 60cm
- Karasawa (563m): 35cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
- Yamabiko (1615m): 180cm
- Uenotaira (1407m): 175cm
- Hikage (660m): 110cm
- Nagasaka (616m): 110cm
- Karasawa (563m): 85cm
All courses apart from the following plan to be open:
- Yunomine A
- Mizunashi A
- Kurokura
- Kandahara
- Skyline
- Grand Prix
- Jumping
- Mukobayashi
- Karasawa
- Hachiman
- Kamoshika
- Tanuki
- Usagi
Planned operating lifts:
- Most lifts are now scheduled to be open, subject to conditions
- The Utopia and Challenge pair lifts are normally rested on weekdays
- The Nagasaka quad lift is open for night skiing 30th Dec-1st Jan, 8th-9th Jan, 11th-12th Feb
Nozawa Now 2021-2022 season |
Data as of Monday 27th December 2021 Total snowfall at base 148cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 10 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 34cm (18th, 26th and 27th December) November 2021 snowfall 15cm reported on 2 days December 2021 snowfall 133cm reported on 8 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.