Shiga Kogen Now: Thursday 18th February 2021
- Feb 18, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 25, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Shiga Kogen region of Nagano
New snowfall at base 38cm
Snowfall at base this season 630cm
Posted on Thursday 18th February 2021 This is an archived report. The latest Shiga Kogen Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Shiga Kogen.
Along with the snow clouds, there's some breaks in the clouds appearing in places and even glimpses of blue sky on this cold morning. Often quickly being hidden again, but interesting weather conditions this morning. There's even a bit of sun shining through over at Okushiga as I write this (with light snow falling at the same time).
Did I mention all the snow? Kumanoyu are reporting 50cm of snowfall this morning. Yokoteyama are also reporting 50+cm of snowfall! Very nice. (Yakebitaiyama are being curiously shy this morning and not mentioning a number).
Today should be excellent conditions but with clearer skies forecast and hopefully a bit more snow today, tomorrow should be fantastic.
Temperatures look likely to be rising again over the weekend with another of those 'unseasonably warm' scenarios. Hopefully we'll be getting more fresh snow on the other side of the weekend and forecasts do show temps going back low around Tuesday.
Shiga Kogen Now 2020-2021 season |
Data as of Thursday 18th February 2021 Total snowfall at base 630cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 49 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 55cm (31st December) November 2020 snowfall 12cm reported on 4 days December 2020 snowfall 216cm reported on 15 days January 2021 snowfall 233cm reported on 17 days February 2021 snowfall 169cm reported on 13 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Shiga Kogen. 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.