Zao Now: Friday 5th December 2014
- Dec 5, 2014
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Zao region of Yamagata
New snowfall at base 4cm
Snowfall at base this season 144cm
Posted on Friday 5th December 2014 This is an archived report. The latest Zao Now report can be found here.
Just a bit more fresh snow since yesterday here and it's a cloudy start to the day in the village, a bit of light snow lazily falling.
All this snow and I think people are still in shock. Is the full mountain open? Er, no. Looks like we have the Chuo Number 1 Pair lift moving and just that Chuo area of the resort open this morning. That's the latest as of 8:45am this morning.
Utopia is today reporting 130cm of snow. Nice. The Chuo official snow depth has gone down from 120cm to 70cm today. Not sure what's going on there - who ate the snow?! - but there you go, those are the numbers.
I would imagine that surely tomorrow we will see more of the resort open, but no official word yet. Perhaps it's a secret? ;)
Official snow depths:
Utopia: 130cm
Chuo: 70cm
Paradise: -cm
Uwanodai: 80cm
Zao Now 2014-2015 season |
Data as of Friday 5th December 2014 Total snowfall at base 144cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 6 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 80cm (on 3rd December) November 2014 snowfall 20cm observed on 2 days December 2014 snowfall 124cm observed on 4 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.