Nozawa Now: Tuesday 27th December 2022
- Dec 27, 2022
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 7cm
Snowfall at base this season 78cm
Posted on Tuesday 27th December 2022 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
We've had some more snow and more of the ski area is opening up. There was the update I made yesterday, and there's more going on today with a bunch of ski runs opening from this afternoon - including Schneider, Challenge, Challenge 39, Utopia and Rinkan. That will mean that from this afternoon you should be able to ski or snowboard back down to base (rather than take a gondola).
There has been 30cm or more of fresh snow on upper areas of the ski areas since yesterday. The tree branches are looking loaded this morning. (Not so much down in lower areas, more like 5-10cm).
Anyway it should be good out there this morning. We might get some clearer skies too.
Next snowfall of significance looks due around Thursday/Friday.
Fresh snowfall since yesterday morning (reported by the ski area):
- Yamabiko: 37cm
- Uenotaira: 27cm
- Hikage: 5cm
- Nagasaka: 10cm
- Karasawa: -cm (not reporting yet)
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
- Yamabiko: 135cm
- Uenotaira: 105cm
- Hikage: 75cm
- Nagasaka: 70cm
- Karasawa: - (not reporting yet)
Lifts:
- Nagasaka Gondola (8:30am open)
- Hikage Gondola (8:30am open)
- Yamabiko Number 2 Four quad
- Yamabiko Four quad
- Skyline pair
- Uenotaira quad
- Paradise quad
- Hikage quad
- Hikage triple
- Nagasaka triple
- Nagasaka Gondola connecting pair
- Yu Road (8:00am open)
Courses:
- Yamabiko A-E
- Paradise
- Uenotaira
- Uenotaira Family Lane
- Kokenashi AB
- Hikage
- Nagasaka connecting
- Schneider (from this afternoon)
- Challenge (from this afternoon)
- Challenge 39 (from this afternoon)
- Utopia A/B (from this afternoon)
- Rinkan (from this afternoon)
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Data as of Tuesday 27th December 2022 Total snowfall at base 78cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 11 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 34cm (26th December) November 2022 snowfall 0cm December 2022 snowfall 78cm reported on 11 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.