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Shiga Kogen Now: Friday 6th January 2017

  • Jan 6, 2017
  • 2 min read

Independent snow and weather reporting from the Shiga Kogen region of Nagano


New snowfall at base 21cm
Snowfall at base this season 289cm

Posted on Friday 6th January 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Shiga Kogen Now report can be found here.


Morning from Shiga Kogen and another decent amount of snowfall since my report yesterday. Just over 20cm of it in fact. Nice.


It's very cold too, brrrrrr!


There is a lot of cloud lingering about early this morning, and light snow continuing to fall in places, but it is forecast to clear up during the day today and we might see clearer skies and even some sunshine.


After today, we're forecast some clearer and sunny skies over the weekend before back to snowfall on Monday. Sounds good to me.


It's one of the big weekends of the season as Monday is a holiday. Conditions should be very nice for it too. Hope you can come and enjoy it.



Shiga Kogen Now 2016-2017 season

Data as of Friday 6th January 2017 Total snowfall at base 289cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 28 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 32cm (24th December) November 2016 snowfall 27cm reported on 5 days December 2016 snowfall 215cm reported on 18 days January 2017 snowfall 47cm reported on 5 days




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