Zao Now: Tuesday 7th April 2020
- Apr 7, 2020
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Zao region of Yamagata
New snowfall at base 6cm
Snowfall at base this season 340cm
Posted on Tuesday 7th April 2020 This is an archived report. The latest Zao Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Zao.
Well, we have had some fresh snowfall since my last report! Always nice to see.
It is keeping cold this morning and light snow is falling.
I have added the planned closing dates of each of the lifts to the information below. Subject to change, of course. They are still having them run to 6th May, so it will be interesting to see if that will be possible with the snow less than usual.
Official snow depths (as reported by resort):
- Summit area: 50cm
- Paradise area: 40cm
- Chuo area: 75cm
- Utopia area: 65cm
- Uwanodai area: 10cm
- Oomori area: 0cm
- Generally upper areas remain part open; lower areas are closed
The following lifts continue to operate (subject to change):
- Zao Ropeway [open daily]
- Zao Chuo Ropeway [open daily]
- Chuo Number 1 pair AB [open daily until 6th May]
- Chuo Number 2 pair AB [open until 12th April and 18th-19th April]
- Diamond Number 2 pair [open until 10th April and 11th-12th April]
- Utopia Number 2 pair [open daily until 6th May]
- Sky Cable [open daily]
- Other lifts are now closed for the season
Zao Now 2019-2020 season |
Data as of Tuesday 7th April 2020 Total snowfall at base 340cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 54 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 64cm observed on 9 days April 2020 snowfall 6cm observed on 1 day |
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.