Zao Now: Thursday 23rd January 2014
- Jan 23, 2014
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 2, 2025
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Zao region of Yamagata
New snowfall at base 10cm
Snowfall at base this season 278cm
Posted on Thursday 23rd January 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Zao Now report can be found here.
First of all one thing about yesterdays report... I didn't mean that "no new snow" was a good thing, just that the weather was very fine and that it was a feel good day out and about. And it was that.
We're back to grey and cloudy this morning though but I do have 10cm of fresh snowfall to report. Which is obviously a good thing!
Keeping cold down to -7 degrees earlier on and not much above that now and light snow falling.
Tomorrow and Saturday like many areas of Japan are probably going to be milder and we should start the day off with sunny skies. There might even be some rain down in the village around Saturday.
Official snow depths:
Utopia: 240cm
Chuo: 185cm
Paradise: 225cm
Uwanodai: 135cm
Zao Now 2013-2014 season |
Data as of Thursday 23rd January 2014 Total snowfall at base so far 278cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 34 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 40cm (on 2nd January) November 2013 snowfall 12cm observed on 1 day December 2013 snowfall 179cm observed on 18 days January 2014 snowfall 87cm observed on 15 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.