Nozawa Now: Friday 2nd January 2015
- Jan 2, 2015
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 40cm
Snowfall at base this season 527cm
Posted on Friday 2nd January 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
A bit of sunshine and quite a lot of blue sky this morning actually. There's still a fair amount of cloud around but it's really nice conditions this morning here in Nozawa. Can actually see where you're going!
And there's lots more snow to enjoy as well with the top areas of the resort reporting over 50cm of fresh snowfall once again over the last 24 hours. Check the numbers below. Yamabiko now officially on 3.5m snow depth.
It's a cold start again so that extra layer is still very much needed. It should start getting slightly less cold from tomorrow and then more so on Sunday and Monday when we will probably (maybe?) have lots of sunshine to enjoy. Local forecast says maybe a bit of snow later on today.
Back to fresh snowfall around Tuesday?
Yes... things are good.
Tomorrow (Saturday) is the last day for the lifts opening 30 minutes earlier than normal for the New Year holidays.
Fresh snow to report this morning since yesterday (during day + overnight):
Yamabiko - 38cm + 20cm
Uenotaira - 25cm + 50cm
Hikage - 23cm + 30cm
Nagasaka - 23cm + 30cm
Karasawa - 23cm + 30cm
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko - 350cm
Uenotaira - 315cm
Hikage - 235cm
Nagasaka - 235cm
Karasawa - 190cm
Courses open:
All courses are now open except:
Grand Prix course
Jumping Course
Mukoubayashi
Challenge 39
Kandahara West
Nozawa Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Friday 2nd January 2015 Total snowfall at base 527cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 16 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 70cm (14th and 18th December) November 2014 snowfall 0cm December 2014 snowfall 437cm reported on 14 days January 2015 snowfall 90cm reported on 2 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.