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Zao Now: Wednesday 25th January 2017

  • Jan 25, 2017
  • 2 min read

Independent snow and weather reporting from the Zao region of Yamagata


New snowfall at base 2cm
Snowfall at base this season 329cm

Posted on Wednesday 25th January 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Zao Now report can be found here.


I don't have much to report to you this morning really.


It's mainly cloudy at the moment and no new snowfall being reported though just a bit since my morning report yesterday.


Might the skies clear today? Or tomorrow... forecasts seem to disagree on that so we'll just have to see what nature brings us. There's not a whole lot of fresh snow on the weekly forecast at the moment, we just hope it remains cold to keep the snow conditions.


All lifts apart from the following appear to be operating today:

Diamond Number 1 pair

Paradise Number 3 pair

Karamatsu pair

Yokokura Number 2 pair


All courses are open


Official snow depths (as published by the resort itself):

Summit - 100cm

Paradise - 170cm

Chuo - 170cm

Utopia - 140cm

Uwanodai - 100cm

Yokokura - 125cm



Zao Now 2016-2017 season

Data as of Wednesday 25th January 2017 Total snowfall at base 329cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 37 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 220cm observed on 15 days




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