Nozawa Now: Thursday 30th January 2025
- Jan 30, 2025
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 22cm
Snowfall at base this season 490cm
Posted on Thursday 30th January 2025 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
This morning the ski area is reporting an additional 30cm of snow overnight, so with the 10cm it reported yesterday at 3pm that is 40cm over 24 hours.
Lower areas all come in at 15-25cm.
More snow forecast through tomorrow. And next week seems to be shaping up nice too.
It's good to be back to more mid winter like conditions.
Ski area is reporting the chance of gondola disruption due to wind on mountain today, though all seems to be ok at the moment.
Fresh snowfall since yesterday morning (as reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 40cm
Uenotaira: 22cm
Hikage: 25cm
Nagasaka: 24cm
Karasawa: 15cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 250cm
Uenotaira: 215cm
Hikage: 160cm
Nagasaka: 155cm
Karasawa: 120cm
Lifts:
All scheduled lifts are operating as planned
The Utopia pair lift and Challenge pair lift are normally closed on weekdays
Courses:
All courses are available apart from Mukobayashi, Grand Prix and Kurokura
Nozawa Now 2024-2025 season |
Data as of Thursday 30th January 2025 Total snowfall at base 490cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 40 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 41cm (29th December) November 2024 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2024 snowfall 291cm reported on 21 days January 2025 snowfall 196cm reported on 18 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.