Zao Now: Wednesday 5th February 2020
- Feb 5, 2020
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Zao region of Yamagata
New snowfall at base 10cm
Snowfall at base this season 166cm
Posted on Wednesday 5th February 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Zao Now report can be found here.
Snow is falling this morning.
8cm from yesterday and another 2cm this morning down at base, and surely more than that higher up on the mountain.
Official sources currently show most lifts are open and so the wind and snow isn't affecting things too much.
Friday should be good especially if we get some decent snow through today and perhaps into tomorrow, as there are clearer skies forecast.
All lifts are now normally operating apart from the following:
- Zao Paradise Number 3 pair
- Diamond Number 1 pair
- Astraea Number 3 pair
- Onsen Number 4 quad
- Karamatsu pair
- Yokokura Number 2 pair
- All courses are either part open or fully open
Official snow depths (as reported by resort):
- Summit area: 85cm
- Paradise area: 80cm
- Chuo area: 90cm
- Utopia area: 100cm
- Uwanodai area: 40cm
- Oomori area: 25cm
Zao Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Wednesday 5th February 2020 Total snowfall at base 166cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 31 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 18cm (on 21st January) 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 19cm 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.