Lovely day yesterday and a cloudy start to the day here today. It was mild overnight - I didn't even put the heater on last night - and remains so this morning, currently about 8 degrees.

The warmer conditions means that some of the snow on the higher areas has melted again with only the Yamabiko course area looking like it has a cover. There's not much up there though so we remain in need of a considerably dumpage of snow to get the resort open.

So when is this snow going to arrive? Well, there's a chance that by the end of today we will see snowing at least higher up. It may well start as rain which is forecast for this morning.

Tomorrow is due to be colder and snowy so I hope I can bring you news of that tomorrow morning.

We'll need a lot tomorrow because beyond tomorrow there's not a whole lot of snow potential on the weekly forecast as it currently stands.

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Official snow depths:

Yamabiko - 0cm
Uenotaira - 0cm
Hikage - 0cm
Nagasaka - 0cm
Karasawa - 0cm

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Courses:

Resort not open yet

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Lifts:

Resort not open yet

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Nozawa Onsen 6 day weather and snow forecast

Nozawa Onsen main resort data