Zao Now: Wednesday 23rd November 2016
- Nov 23, 2016
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Zao region of Yamagata
New snowfall at base 1cm
Snowfall at base this season 3cm
Posted on Wednesday 23rd November 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Zao Now report can be found here.
Greetings from here in Zao Onsen where we have some snow to report. Not a huge amount, just 1cm here at base and so hopefully a good bit more higher up.
You may have noticed on the new yesterday that there was an strong earthquake off the east costs of Fukushima yesterday morning. We felt it pretty strong here as well, a shindo 4 on the Japanese scale. Let's hope that's the last time for a long time, I can do without that feeling!
Anyway back to the happy subject of snowfall once again. The forecast for the coming week is looking mixed - there's chances of snowfall on and off but nothing major by the looks. Zao Onsen doesn't tend to give an 'opening date', rather something more like 'early December'. I'm sure that once enough snow does actually fall here, the lifts will start moving.
Not long now. Keep your eyes on the forecast, and I'll be back in a few days...
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Data as of Wednesday 23rd November 2016 Total snowfall at base 3cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 2 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 2cm (on 10th November) November 2016 snowfall 3cm observed on 2 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.