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Nozawa Now: Monday 8th February 2016

  • Feb 8, 2016
  • 2 min read

Independent snow and weather reporting from the Nozawa Onsen region of Nagano


New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 245cm

Posted on Monday 8th February 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


Yesterday we had mixed weather conditions here in Nozawa.


As can often happen here - snow falling higher up on the top Yamabiko runs with sunshine and part blue skies on lower slopes. The resort reported 2-6cm of fresh snow at 3pm yesterday afternoon (since the morning report), but there's no further cm of snow this morning.


This morning the clouds are gone and it's clear and sunny from early on - it's going to be a fine day, just as we were expecting. Very cold early morning too though the sun should be warming things up this afternoon.


We're still expecting to be back to snowfall tomorrow as well, so if all goes well we'll need googles and extra layers tomorrow.


The heaviest snow is expected tomorrow night though it should hopefully be continuing into Wednesday as well.


Official snow depths:


Yamabiko: 165cm

Uenotaira: 130cm

Hikage: 80cm

Nagasaka: 65cm

Karasawa: 55cm


New snowfall as reported by the resort since yesterday:


Yamabiko: 4cm

Uenotaira: 6cm

Hikage: 2cm

Nagasaka: 2cm

Karasawa: 2cm



Nozawa Now 2015-2016 season

Data as of Monday 8th February 2016 Total snowfall at base 245cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 36 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 10cm reported on 5 days




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