Nozawa Now: Friday 28th February 2020
- Feb 28, 2020
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 24cm
Snowfall at base this season 402cm
Posted on Friday 28th February 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
If my recording of the numbers yesterday evening was correct, the resort was reporting 10-32cm (base-top) of snowfall during the day yesterday and this morning there is another 10-22cm. That is a range of 20cm at base and 54cm up top, as reported by the resort. That upper number seems rather a lot - I wasn't out on the mountain yesterday, but their numbers are usually trustworthy (Nasuki would complain otherwise) and so I am eager go to check it out this morning.
So lower slopes have had a decent reset and the mountain should be in good shape this morning. Potentially really great shape.
I'll know once I check.
Cloudy skies are expected today, though there is already some blue sky and sun breaking through as I post this report. Mostly sunny skies forecast for tomorrow.
The resort has cancelled the Garigari-kun Festa event that it has planned for tomorrow and Sunday - it is a precautionary measure due to the coronavirus situation. Other than that the resort is open as planned.
Let us all hope that the news on that front gets better soon. I'm being careful doing the washing hands thing etc, but feel that a day in the fresh cold air on the mountain is very low risk. (Personal comment!)
Fresh snowfall recorded by resort since yesterday morning:
- Yamabiko (1407m): 32 + 22cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 24 + 20cm
- Hikage (660m): 13 + 17cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 20 + 17cm
- Karasawa (563m): 10 + 10cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by resort):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 240cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 185cm
- Hikage (660m): 90cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 80cm
- Karasawa (563m): 40cm
All lifts normally operating apart from the following lifts:
- Yunomine pair
- Challenge pair
- Mizunashi triple
- Utopia pair
All courses normally open apart from the following courses:
- Kandahar
- Grand Prix
- Jumping
- Hachiman
- Mukobayashi
- Skyline (lower area)
Nighta until 8:00pm
- Nagasaka Four lift operates during nighta
- Every Saturday until 28th March
- 20th March
- Subject to change
Nozawa Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Friday 28th February 2020 Total snowfall at base 402cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 32 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 56cm (9th February) November 2019 snowfall 4cm reported on 2 days December 2019 snowfall 33cm reported on 5 days January 2020 snowfall 120cm reported on 11 days February 2020 snowfall 245cm reported on 14 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.