Zao Now: Friday 6th March 2020
- Mar 6, 2020
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Zao region of Yamagata
New snowfall at base 12cm
Snowfall at base this season 283cm
Posted on Friday 6th March 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Zao Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Zao.
Fresh snow to report to you this morning. The official numbers (not all and) just increasing by a bit but I have measured 12cm. I would expect more on the mountain and a friend of mine is mentioning more than 20cm - which would be very good.
After today, it looks like we are going to have our fair share of sunshine. Possibly more than our fair share with things warming up Japan-wide particularly around Tuesday. Don't expect any snowfall before Wednesday at the earliest, but hopefully we are not done for the season yet in terms of fresh...
So sunny over the weekend.
Official snow depths (as reported by resort):
- Summit area: 100cm
- Paradise area: 110cm
- Chuo area: 120cm
- Utopia area: 130cm
- Uwanodai area: 60cm
- Oomori area: 60cm
All lifts are now normally operating apart from the following:
- Zao Paradise Number 3 pair
- Diamond Number 1 pair
- Ryuzan pair
- Karamatsu pair
- Yokokura Number 2 pair
- All courses are now mostly open
Zao Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Friday 6th March 2020 Total snowfall at base 283cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 46 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 13cm 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.