Zao Now: Wednesday 25th March 2020
- Mar 25, 2020
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Zao region of Yamagata
New snowfall at base 18cm
Snowfall at base this season 331cm
Posted on Wednesday 25th March 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Zao Now report can be found here.
I was almost snowed in yesterday morning. The resort was saying there was 30cm in places and I measured getting on for 20cm myself. Good to see a fresh layer and patchy lower slopes getting a whitening.
Expect things to warm up tomorrow and the day after before cooling down again at the weekend.
Official snow depths (as reported by resort):
- Summit area: 75cm
- Paradise area: 80cm
- Chuo area: 90cm
- Utopia area: 100cm
- Uwanodai area: 35cm
- Oomori area: 15cm
- Lower areas closed; upper areas remain part open
The following lifts are now closed for the season:
- Diamond Number 1 pair
- Zao Paradise Number 3 pair
- Onsen Number 3 Parallel A B
- Onsen Number 4 quad
- Zao Kokutai pair
- Karamatsu pair
- Ryuzan pair
- Sunrise pair A B
- Nakamori Number 1 triple
- Nakamori Number 2 pair
- Oomori quad
Zao Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Wednesday 25th March 2020 Total snowfall at base 331cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 52 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 30cm (on 7th February) November 2019 snowfall 8cm observed on 3 days December 2019 snowfall 51cm observed on 10 days January 2020 snowfall 88cm observed on 16 days February 2020 snowfall 123cm observed on 15 days March 2020 snowfall 61cm observed on 8 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.