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Nozawa Now: Sunday 31st January 2016

  • Jan 31, 2016
  • 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 235cm

Posted on Sunday 31st January 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


Morning from Nozawa and the forecasts did tell us to expect some snowfall overnight - and we got some, a modest 5cm or so.


This morning there's some breaks in the cloud for us here in the village but I can see that visibility is very limited up on the Yamabiko and Uenotaira areas... it might even be snowing up there still - it was down here until just before.


It will likely clear up fairly quickly though and we're forecast a generally cloudy day with the chance of more snow overnight (probably light snow again).


Not much else to report really at the moment as we fast approach February. In the coming days I'll take a look back at the season so far and compare snowfall with previous seasons.


Have a good Sunday.


Official snow depths:


Yamabiko: 150cm

Uenotaira: 125cm

Hikage: 80cm

Nagasaka: 70cm

Karasawa: 65cm


New snowfall as reported by the resort since yesterday:


Yamabiko: 2cm

Uenotaira: 6cm

Hikage: 5cm

Nagasaka: 5cm

Karasawa: 5cm



Nozawa Now 2015-2016 season

Data as of Sunday 31st January 2016 Total snowfall at base 235cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 31 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 32cm (29th December) November 2015 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2015 snowfall 100cm reported on 9 days January 2016 snowfall 132cm reported on 21 days




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