Zao Now: Saturday 18th February 2017
- Feb 18, 2017
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Zao region of Yamagata
New snowfall at base 1cm
Snowfall at base this season 427cm
Posted on Saturday 18th February 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Zao Now report can be found here.
Yesterday was a bit wild out there but this morning things have calmed down - just a slight breeze at the moment.
Just a bit of new snow on the ground this morning and a cloudy start to the day. And happily it is much colder than how we started the day yesterday.
We may get some fine weather today and a chance of some snow in the day tomorrow. All a bit unclear and changeable it feels at the moment.
All lifts apart from the following appear to be operating today:
Paradise Number 3 pair
All courses apart from Kotan are open.
Official snow depths (as published by the resort itself):
Summit - 125cm
Paradise - 220cm
Chuo - 220cm
Utopia - 170cm
Uwanodai - 130cm
Yokokura - 155cm
Zao Now 2016-2017 season |
Data as of Saturday 18th February 2017 Total snowfall at base 427cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 48 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 39cm (on 16th January) November 2016 snowfall 11cm observed on 6 days December 2016 snowfall 98cm observed on 16 days January 2017 snowfall 241cm observed on 16 days February 2017 snowfall 77cm observed on 10 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.