Nozawa Now: Wednesday 5th February 2014
- Feb 5, 2014
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 25cm
Snowfall at base this season 400cm
Posted on Wednesday 5th February 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Ah, yes... now this is more like it!
I am very happy to be able to report lots of fresh snow down here in the village area and just hearing the numbers from the resort:
Yamabiko - 35cm
Uenotaira - ?cm
Hikage - 30cm
Nagasaka - 30cm
Karasawa - 20cm
So up to 35cm of fresh snow on the upper slopes this morning, with Uenotaira area yet to report. (I suspect they may well report more).
I haven't been hearing of any reports of lift or course closings early this morning, but care will be needed with these quickly changing conditions.
It is suitably cold (minus 7 degrees here at base and a very cold indeed minus 14 degrees up top),but has also been very windy overnight. The wind has calmed down a lot though now and actually (and unfortunately) the snow has been easing off - down here anyway - and even some clouds breaking up showing a bit of sky in places.
I'm looking at a few forecasts here now and they are saying different things... cloud for the day, snow showers for the day. Looks like overnight was the peak of what we are getting this time anyway.
Saturday onwards into next week is looking to be rather snowy as well, so things are looking up. Hopefully that mild dry spell is behind us!
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko - 290cm
Uenotaira - 190cm
Hikage - 160cm
Nagasaka - 155cm
Karasawa - 110cm
Lifts
All lifts operating
Courses
All courses open except:
Kandahar West
Nozawa Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Wednesday 5th February 2014 Total snowfall at base 400cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 34 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 45cm (10th January) November 2013 snowfall 15cm reported on 2 days December 2013 snowfall 100cm reported on 11 days January 2014 snowfall 259cm reported on 19 days February 2014 snowfall 26cm 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.