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Nozawa Now: Thursday 9th February 2017

  • Feb 9, 2017
  • 2 min read

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


New snowfall at base 6cm
Snowfall at base this season 604cm

Posted on Thursday 9th February 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Nozawa Now report can be found here.


Good morning from Nozawa.


There's another 6cm of snow to report from the yesterday morning and the resort is reporting 5-7cm with none further overnight.


I had an amazing morning enjoying some excellent conditions and had a chance to meet a few like-minded folk visiting from overseas. They seemed happy with their Nozawa experience.


This morning as expected it is calm and cloudy with grey clouds all around. There's a chance of snow later on this afternoon or this evening and then snow is forecast to be falling throughout the day tomorrow --- potentially heavy snow. I would expect some good numbers once again in my reports tomorrow and/or Saturday. There's a chance there'll be a moderate wind tomorrow but hopefully not enough to mess about with lift operations.


Fresh snow reported by resort since yesterday morning:

- Yamabiko: 5cm

- Uenotaira: 7cm

- Hikage: 7cm

- Nagasaka: 7cm

- Karasawa: 5cm


Official snow depths:

- Yamabiko: 365cm

- Uenotaira: 260cm

- Hikage: 200cm

- Nagasaka: 195cm

- Karasawa: 150cm


Lifts operations:

- All lifts apart from the following lifts are operating

- Yunomine pair

- Mizunashi pair

- Challenge pair

- Utopia pair


Most courses at Nozawa Onsen are open. Courses not open are:

- Kandahar West

- Kandahar East

- Grand Prix



Nozawa Now 2016-2017 season

Data as of Thursday 9th February 2017 Total snowfall at base 604cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 43 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 52cm (14th January) November 2016 snowfall 2cm reported on 2 days December 2016 snowfall 161cm reported on 14 days January 2017 snowfall 366cm reported on 20 days February 2017 snowfall 75cm reported on 7 days




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