Nozawa Now: Friday 5th February 2016
- Feb 5, 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 239cm
Posted on Friday 5th February 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Morning from Nozawa and the snowfall I have to report this morning is similar to yesterday ranging from a dusting on lower slopes to 5cm on upper slopes.
I so miss being able to often report 30cm of fresh dumpage in the village, and I still optimistically hope we'll get to some of that this season - though some locals are more of the 'this is how the season will be' kind of thinking now.
So I'm getting excited about what is on the forecast. After some light snow today/tonight perhaps, it's heavy snow forecast tomorrow night (well on some forecasts anyway). Monday is scheduled currently to be clearer and sunny and that to be followed by a return to snowy conditions and the chance of another decent dump.
Fingers crossed everyone.
Just now there's a lot of fog up top (possibly light snow? - the resort was reporting light snow up there as of 7:30am), making visibility limited in some places. Better in others and maybe it'll clear up this morning.
It's going to be a busy weekend. Let's hope there's lots of fresh snow to play in come Sunday morning.
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko: 165cm
Uenotaira: 130cm
Hikage: 75cm
Nagasaka: 60cm
Karasawa: 55cm
New snowfall as reported by the resort since yesterday:
Yamabiko: 5cm
Uenotaira: 3cm
Hikage: 1cm
Nagasaka: 1cm
Karasawa: 0cm
Nozawa Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Friday 5th February 2016 Total snowfall at base 239cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 34 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 4cm 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.