Nozawa Now: Saturday 29th January 2022
- Jan 29, 2022
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 24cm
Snowfall at base this season 640cm
Posted on Saturday 29th January 2022 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Hello to you all and good morning from Nozawa.
There's a bunch of snow to report this morning. The ski area itself has reported 35-41cm of snow on the upper areas since yesterday morning (30cm of that since late afternoon). Nice. Lower down on the mountain there's been snow too, around 25cm give or take. Sounds like there should be some fine tracks to be had this morning.
There should be more snow especially tonight and during the day tomorrow. It's certainly not warm, but it has not been mid-winter bone-shaking cold over recent days down here in the village. Currently -2C at base and -9C up top according to the ski area.
Rested lifts today: Challenge pair, Utopia pair, Karasawa pair.
Fresh snowfall recorded by the ski area (total since yesterday morning):
- Yamabiko (1615m): 35cm
- Uenotaira (1407m): 41cm
- Hikage (660m): 25cm
- Nagasaka (616m): 25cm
- Karasawa (563m): 15cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
- Yamabiko (1615m): 335cm
- Uenotaira (1407m): 290cm
- Hikage (660m): 270cm
- Nagasaka (616m): 265cm
- Karasawa (563m): 180cm
All courses apart from the following plan to be open:
- Yunomine A
- Grand Prix
- Kamoshika
Planned operating lifts (this is general info - for any specifics see top report):
- 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 Saturday 29th January 2022 Total snowfall at base 640cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 33 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 353cm reported on 20 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.