Zao Now: Wednesday 11th February 2015
- Feb 11, 2015
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Zao region of Yamagata
New snowfall at base 8cm
Snowfall at base this season 480cm
Posted on Wednesday 11th February 2015 This is an archived report. The latest Zao Now report can be found here.
A few cm overnight and some from yesterday during the day time give us more fresh on this cold morning... but somewhat milder temps expected today. All relative of course, still down there in the negative numbers.
Decent visibility this morning but mostly cloudy to start the day off. Doesn't look particularly busy from a quick glance outside, but today is actually a holiday in Japan and so you would expect more people to be around today.
We might get some light snow from time to time today but generally cloudy conditions expected and more tomorrow, perhaps a bit of sun. Temps are going to dip again come Friday along with moderate snowfall and potentially strong winds as well. That might keep going into Saturday as well, so need to keep an eye on that.
Official snow depths:
Utopia: 225cm
Chuo: 200cm
Paradise: 200cm
Uwanodai: 155cm
Zao Onsen is fully open (* note that the Karamatsu pair lift is closed on weekdays).
Zao Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Wednesday 11th February 2015 Total snowfall at base 480cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 44 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 80cm (on 3rd December) November 2014 snowfall 20cm observed on 2 days December 2014 snowfall 281cm observed on 21 days January 2015 snowfall 118cm observed on 15 days February 2015 snowfall 61cm observed on 6 days |
All snowfall data presented on this page is the snowfall measured and observed at base/town level by our reporter based in Zao Onsen. 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.