Zao Now: Wednesday 1st January 2014
- Jan 1, 2014
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Zao region of Yamagata
New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 193cm
Posted on Wednesday 1st January 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Zao Now report can be found here.
Akemashite Omedeto Gozaimasu, and a very Happy New Year to you all.
Zao had a pretty good December of course, so here's to a fantastic January, February, March and April too. And May.
This morning the New Year brings us a few more cm of snow, it's snowing now but it's not as cold as it often is and just under 0 degrees at the moment. Nice big flakes of snow falling though right now and I suspect that come tomorrows report I'll be able to tell stories of very fine conditions and a good new delivery of snow.
Might have to look out for stronger winds later on today though...
Official snow depths:
Utopia: 155cm
Chuo: 150cm
Paradise: 155cm
Uwanodai: 90cm
Zao Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Wednesday 1st January 2014 Total snowfall at base so far 193cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 20 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 30cm (on 12th December) November 2013 snowfall 12cm observed on 1 day December 2013 snowfall 179cm observed on 18 days January 2014 snowfall 2cm observed on 1 day |
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.