Nozawa Now: Thursday 6th March 2014
- Mar 6, 2014
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 15cm
Snowfall at base this season 560cm
Posted on Thursday 6th March 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.
Morning from Nozawa, and a good one it is too.
I'll quickly paper over the not particularly nice and rather wet yesterday and zoom in on the fact that apparently we have 30cm of fresh up on Yamabiko, 25cm on Uenotaira and 15cm on the rest of the mountain. I can definitely confirm the need to get all the snow off the car this morning which is always a pleasure. (Well, almost always!)
So yes the early March storm has arrived. It's cold, it has been snowing.
Overnight there were strong winds making a noise, but it's calmer now. The snowfall seems to be easing off, but snow showers are due on and off for the day. The mountain is covered in cloud and visibility seems poor on the upper areas and more decent down below.
More of the same over the coming days. Let's rack up some decent snow!
Official snow depths:
Yamabiko - 335cm
Uenotaira - 250cm
Hikage - 170cm
Nagasaka - 160cm
Karasawa - 120cm
Lifts
Weekday operations - all lifts operating except:
Yunomine pair
Mizunashi triple
Challenge pair
Utopia pair
Hikage Number 2 pair B
Courses
All courses open except:
Grand Prix
Kandahar West
Kandahar East
Nozawa Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Thursday 6th March 2014 Total snowfall at base 560cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 49 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 168cm reported on 14 days March 2014 snowfall 18cm 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.