Zao Now: Monday 8th February 2016
- Feb 8, 2016
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Zao region of Yamagata
New snowfall at base 1cm
Snowfall at base this season 355cm
Posted on Monday 8th February 2016 This is an archived report. The latest Zao Now report can be found here.
Morning from Zao Onsen, and it's a really cold one - possibly the coldest morning of the season, certainly one of them. My thermometer earlier on was saying -7 degrees. Wonder how much colder it is up on the mountain right now?! (Resort is reporting -12 degrees as of 8:30am).
There was some cloud around earlier as well but it's mostly blue sky now and the sun shining brightly. Lovely.
Still due to be snowing tomorrow and into Wednesday and hopefully strong winds won't cause us any problems.
Lots of Japan looks like it's due something of a warm up this coming weekend and it might well bring with it some rain. Here's to avoiding that lot!
All lifts are operating this morning.
Official snow depths:
Utopia: 125cm
Chuo: 160cm
Paradise: 140cm
Uwanodai: 110cm
Zao Now 2015-2016 season |
Data as of Monday 8th February 2016 Total snowfall at base 355cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 45 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 46cm (on 19th January) November 2015 snowfall 22cm observed on 2 days December 2015 snowfall 96cm observed on 12 days January 2016 snowfall 211cm observed on 25 days February 2016 snowfall 26cm observed on 6 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.