Nozawa Now: Monday 6th January 2020
- Jan 6, 2020
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 8cm
Snowfall at base this season 100cm
Posted on Monday 6th January 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
The New Year holidays are over now and it's back to work for many. That means that the mountain will be noticeably quieter today for the lucky people around now.
I mentioned the chance of clearer skies for today. Well, we haven't got them yet with lots of cloud around still but there are clearer skies opening up to the north of Nozawa Onsen, so perhaps we will see more of that as the day progresses.
Another 20cm of fresh snowfall is being reported by the resort from the top of the mountain, with 5-10cm across other areas of the resort.
If you want to get from the Nagasaka base are to Hikage base area you can now get the 'Nasuki-go' snowmobile service. I hope that lovely bright green vegetable makes appearances!
(I suppose I should really write 'Na-su-ki' (the way it is written in Japanese katakana) as 'Naski', as it is written on the official English website. I'm just not used to it. I promise to try.
Fresh snowfall recorded by resort since yesterday morning:
- Yamabiko (1407m): 20cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 10cm
- Hikage (660m): 10cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 10cm
- Karasawa (563m): 5cm
Official snow depth numbers (reported by resort):
- Yamabiko (1407m): 140cm
- Uenotaira (1230m): 120cm
- Hikage (660m): 80cm
- Nagasaka (615m): 60cm
- Karasawa (563m): 40cm
All lifts normally operating apart from these lifts:
- Mizunashi triple
- Challenge pair
- Utopia pair
- Kandahar pair
- Karasawa pair
All courses open apart from the following courses:
- Challenge 39
- Utopia B
- Kandahar
- Grand Prix
- Mukobayashi
- Karasawa
- Hachiman
- Karasawa link
- Kamoshika
- Tanuki
- Usagi
Nozawa Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Monday 6th January 2020 Total snowfall at base 100cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 12 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 23cm (5th January) November 2019 snowfall 4cm reported on 2 days December 2019 snowfall 33cm reported on 5 days January 2020 snowfall 63cm reported on 5 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.