Nozawa Onsen snow report Monday 29th March 2010

It’s been a snowy day across Nagano and Niigata prefectures with around 10~15cm building up around the village of Nozawa Onsen so far. More is predicted to fall overnight before conditions should clear up somewhat during the day. Strong southwesterly winds on Thursday are forecast to bring the warmer spring conditions back so get a good night’s sleep and have fun in the powder tomorrow morning!

New Snow (Resort): 10 cm
New Snow (Village): 2 cm
Weather: Moderate northwesterly winds and light to moderate snow.
Official statistics: (15:20)

Area New Snow (cm) Base Yesterday (cm) Base Today (cm) Current temperature (degrees C) Snow Conditions Weather
Yamabiko 10 220 240 -8 Powder Snowing
Uenodaira 5 170 180 -5 Powder Snowing
Hikage 5 55 60 0 Powder Snowing
Nagasaka 5 35 40 0 Firm Snowing
Karasawa 3 20 25 1 Firm Snowing

Click here to check out a slide show of some of my favorite photographs from this season at Myoko Kogen.