Nozawa Now: Sunday 31st December 2023
- Dec 31, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Feb 11
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 0cm
Snowfall at base this season 114cm
Posted on Sunday 31st December 2023 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
It is cloudy, there is some light rain across the region and it is just under 2C at 8am.
There will not be any night skiing and fireworks tonight as originally planned. Very hopefully, by tonight it will be snowing.
And I look forward to telling you about it tomorrow. (Please let it happen!)
See you in 2024.
Fresh snowfall since yesterday morning (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 0cm
Uenotaira: 0cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by the ski area):
Yamabiko: 75cm
Uenotaira: 70cm
Hikage: 40cm
Nagasaka: 30cm
Karasawa: 25cm
Lifts operating:
Nagasaka Gondola (from 8:00am)
Hikage Gondola (from 8:00am)
Yamabiko Four lift
Yamabiko Number 2 Four quad lift
Skyline connecting pair lift
Uenotaira quad lift
Paradise quad lift
Hikage triple lift
Nagasaka triple lift
Nagasaka gondola link lift
Yu Road (from 7:30am)
Courses available:
Yamabiko A-E
Kokenashi A/B
Uenotaira (some restrictions)
Paradise
Kumataka
Kitsune
Top areas of the ski area are open.
You need to get a gondola back down to base from the top area.
A few base runs are also now open.
Nozawa Now 2023-2024 season |
Data as of Sunday 31st December 2023 Total snowfall at base 114cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 12 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 64cm (23rd December) November 2023 snowfall 21cm reported on 2 days December 2023 snowfall 93cm reported on 10 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.