Nozawa Now: Thursday 27th January 2022
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 1cm
Snowfall at base this season 601cm
Posted on Thursday 27th January 2022 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
It's snowing again this morning. Not much up until now but hopefully we'll get some during the day today and hopefully over the next few days. It doesn't seem we're on for any heavy snowfall though.
Early morning visibility is limited especially in higher areas.
Nagano Prefecture joins the 'quasi state of emergency' club from today. It's a somewhat confusing thing, but it boils down to certain businesses (restaurants, bars) being asked to shorten their business hours. Apparently this is done to help contain the spread of the covid. Naski doesn't know much about it and most definitely is not a scientist vegetable, so has no comment. Just hopes people will still come.
But it might dissuade some from visiting. Particularly, from what I have heard from friends with interest in businesses here in Nozawa, groups of people.
Rested lifts today: Hikage gondola, Skyline connecting, Challenge pair, Utopia pair, Karasawa pair; all courses apart from Yunomine A and Grand Prix open.
Fresh snowfall recorded by the ski area (total since yesterday afternoon):
- Yamabiko (1615m): 2cm
- Uenotaira (1407m): 3cm
- Hikage (660m): 0cm
- Nagasaka (616m): 0cm
- Karasawa (563m): 0cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
- Yamabiko (1615m): 310cm
- Uenotaira (1407m): 260cm
- Hikage (660m): 245cm
- Nagasaka (616m): 235cm
- Karasawa (563m): 155cm
All courses apart from the following plan to be open:
- Yunomine A
- Grand Prix
Planned operating lifts:
- Subject to weather conditions all lifts that plan to be open should be ok. See above main report for specific info for this morning.
- The top Yamabiko A-D courses close at 3:20pm until 27th March (at 3:10pm after that).
- Skyline course closes at 4:10pm.
- The Nagasaka quad lift is planned to open for night skiing 11th-12th Feb (subject to change).
Nozawa Now 2021-2022 season |
Data as of Thursday 27th January 2022 Total snowfall at base 601cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 31 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 75cm (31st December) November 2021 snowfall 15cm reported on 2 days December 2021 snowfall 272cm reported on 11 days January 2022 snowfall 314cm 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.