Nozawa Now: Thursday 4th February 2016
- Feb 4, 2016
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 1cm
Snowfall at base this season 238cm
Posted on Thursday 4th February 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
There's a fog down here this morning. But I can see that up higher on the mountain it's clearer and I can see a mix of cloud and blue sky at the moment.
The early morning fog lower down will probably quickly disappear leaving us with a fine morning.
Yesterday at 3pm the resort was reporting 1-5cm of snowfall during the day bottom-top and this morning just another small dusting higher up. That's where the numbers below are coming from just in case you were wondering.
I'm liking the look of the forecast for Saturday. 'Heavy snow'. We'll have some (lots) of that please. We have of course seen that before but it hasn't quite happened in as dramatic a way as we would like so let's be cautiously optimistic! It should actually be snowing from tomorrow through into Sunday.
Here's to a snowy late week and weekend. For today though, enjoy some sunshine.
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko: 165cm
Uenotaira: 135cm
Hikage: 80cm
Nagasaka: 65cm
Karasawa: 55cm
New snowfall as reported by the resort since yesterday:
Yamabiko: 7cm
Uenotaira: 4cm
Hikage: 1cm
Nagasaka: 1cm
Karasawa: 1cm
Nozawa Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Thursday 4th February 2016 Total snowfall at base 238cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 33 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 February 2016 snowfall 3cm reported on 2 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.