Nozawa Now: Thursday 29th December 2016
- Dec 29, 2016
- 3 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 8cm
Snowfall at base this season 117cm
Posted on Thursday 29th December 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
What a beautiful morning it is here in Nozawa.
No new snow overnight but yesterday the resort was reporting 10-20cm of fresh snowfall during the daytime as it did continue to snow after my report was posted.
And the webcams show some very enticing images of the upper mountain this morning. I think I need to get out myself this morning once my report is posted. It should be a fun one.
It might be fine and sunny just now, but snow is forecast to start falling again sometime this afternoon and continue into tomorrow afternoon.
Big picture - we're still low on snow of course and with a lot of folk arriving here to enjoy New Year things are getting busier; the more snow tonight the better.
(Obviously!)
Fingers crossed. In the meantime, have a great day.
Oh by the way, Challenge 39 and Kitsune courses are now open. Skyline - not yet.
I am updating the details below with each report, so keep an eye on that info.
Lifts that are planned to be operating:
All lifts appear to be operating except for:
- Kandahar pair
- Nagasaka quad
- Karasawa pair
Courses that are planned to be open:
- Yamabiko A course
- Yamabiko B course
- Yamabiko C course
- Yamabiko D course
- Yamabiko E course
- Kokenashi course
- Uenotaira course
- Paradise course
- Paradise link
- Mizunashi A
- Mizunashi B
- Bunabayashi course
- Yunomine A course
- Yunomine B course
- Rinkan course
- Utopia
- Challenge course
- Challenge 39
- Hikage
- Ushikubi
- Kitsune
- Nagasawa link
Official snow depths:
- Yamabiko: 115cm
- Uenotaira: 75cm
- Hikage: 35cm
- Nagasaka: 35cm
- Karasawa: 25cm
Fresh snow reported by resort since yesterday morning:
- Yamabiko: 25cm
- Uenotaira: 15cm
- Hikage: 15cm
- Nagasaka: 15cm
- Karasawa: 10cm
Nozawa Now 2016-2017 season |
Data as of Thursday 29th December 2016 Total snowfall at base 117cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 14 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 24cm (11th December) November 2016 snowfall 2cm reported on 2 days December 2016 snowfall 115cm reported on 12 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.