Zao Now: Saturday 26th January 2013
- Jan 26, 2013
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Zao region of Yamagata
New snowfall at base 25cm
Snowfall at base this season 334cm
Weather overview Snow
Wind
Moderate
Temperature -
Visibility Poor
Posted on Saturday 26th January 2013 This is an archived report. The latest Zao Now report can be found here.
Good news this morning.
Over 20cm of new snow at village level and well over 30cm up top this morning in Zao. Zao is never foward at pushing big snow depth numbers, but we are up to 2m at Utopia this morning.
There's a moderate wind out there and visibility is poor but for snow conditions this morning will be rather good out there. Get wrapped up and have fun.
Lifts seem to be open as planned on the mountain.
From tonight, the evening Light Up operations for the Zao Ropeway become daily and run through until 3rd March. The Ropeway starts it's evening work at 5pm and the last one going up is at 7:50pm. It can get very cold up there so go prepared.
Zao Now 2012-2013 season |
Data as of Saturday 26th January 2013 Total snowfall at base so far 334cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 34 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 30cm (9th, 26th December, 3rd and 15th January) November 2012 snowfall 3cm reported on 1 day December 2012 snowfall 150cm reported on 15 days January 2013 snowfall 181cm reported on 18 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.