Nozawa Now: Thursday 3rd January 2019
- Jan 3, 2019
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 24cm
Snowfall at base this season 241cm
Posted on Thursday 3rd January 2019 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
A nice surprise this morning and for some reason I wasn't expecting this much. I like being surprised this way though!
The ski resort are reporting over 40cm of fresh snowfall on the upper Yamabiko and Uenotaira areas with 20-30cm reported from lower slopes. A large part of that is from overnight with just a bit from the day yesterday.
So conditions should be excellent out there this morning.
And now that the peak New Year rush period is over there should be less people around this morning. Less people tomorrow too and the forecast currently shows that we can expect some sunshine during the day (tomorrow).
If we get that sun, tomorrow should be a cracker especially if we get further snow during the day today which seems likely.
All is good!
Fresh snowfall recorded by resort (since yesterday morning):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 42cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 44cm
- Hikage (660m): 20cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 27cm
- Karasawa (563m): 15cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by resort):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 220cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 200cm
- Hikage (660m): 135cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 130cm
- Karasawa (563m): 95cm
All lifts apart from the following planned to be operating:
- Kandahar pair
- Mizunashi triple
- Utopia pair
All courses open apart from the following planned to be open:
- Kandahar
- Grand Prix
- Mukobayashi
- Hachiman
Nozawa Now 2018-2019 season |
Data as of Thursday 3rd January 2019 Total snowfall at base 241cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 17 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 34cm (15th December) November 2018 snowfall 2cm reported on 1 day December 2018 snowfall 202cm reported on 13 days January 2019 snowfall 37cm reported on 3 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.