Nozawa Now: Saturday 2nd March 2013
- Mar 2, 2013
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 5cm
Snowfall at base this season 785cm
Weather overview Light snow
Wind Strong
Temperature -
Visibility
Poor
Posted on Saturday 2nd March 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
It looks like we have some fresh powder falling in Nozawa Onsen this morning. With a rapid drop in the freezing level overnight the rain has turned to snow delivering 15cm reported at Uenotaira, with other areas of the report reporting a fresh 5cm.
We have strong winds about the peak so higher lifts may again be on wind hold. With the rapid freeze and fresh snow, slope stability is very low. Beware of the very high avalanche risk when venturing off piste.
Yesterday was not the best day on the mountain. Conditions were ok in the morning with firm and fast pistes early that quickly softened. Very strong prefrontal winds kept most of the top half on wind hold all day. During the afternoon the rainfall commenced and built in intensity after last lifts, becoming heavy. Luckily the solid base has probably resisted major damage.
With the worst of the weather behind us we can look at the forecast ahead without cringing. Nozawa Onsen is set to experience further light to moderate snow showers today and into tomorrow. Cold temperatures should accompany this snow until at least Tuesday. Monday should see a mostly sunny bluebird conditions.
Spring conditions are set to return around Wednesday with warm days, cold nights and mostly clear skies.
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Lifts operating:
All lifts operating except
Hikage Number 2 Pair B line
Courses open:
All courses open except
Grand Prix
Kandahar East
Kandahar West
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko
360cm
Uenotaira
335cm
Hikage
195cm
Nagasaka
190cm
Karasawa
150cm
Nozawa Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Saturday 2nd March 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 785cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 51 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 60cm (on 4th January) November 2012 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2012 snowfall 213cm reported on 15 days January 2013 snowfall 311cm reported on 18 days February 2013 snowfall 253cm reported on 16 days March 2013 snowfall 5cm reported on 1 day |
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.