Zao Now: Wednesday 8th March 2017
- Mar 8, 2017
- 2 min read
Independent snow and weather reporting from the Zao region of Yamagata
New snowfall at base 8cm
Snowfall at base this season 464cm
Posted on Wednesday 8th March 2017 This is an archived report. The latest Zao Now report can be found here.
Good morning from Zao.
8cm of fresh snow on the ground this morning and it's snowing still now.
The forecast says more snow throughout the day today and tomorrow too, and perhaps into Friday.
Come on, bring it on!
All lifts apart from the following appear to be operating today:
Paradise Number 3 pair
Diamond Number 1 pair
Karamatsu pair (closed now for the season)
All courses apart from Kotan should be open.
Official snow depths (as published by the resort itself):
Summit - 145cm
Paradise - 220cm
Chuo - 220cm
Utopia - 175cm
Uwanodai - 130cm
Yokokura - 125cm
Zao Now 2016-2017 season |
Data as of Wednesday 8th March 2017 Total snowfall at base 464cm Number of days snowfall observed at base 54 days Most snowfall observed in 1 day 39cm (on 16th January) November 2016 snowfall 11cm observed on 6 days December 2016 snowfall 98cm observed on 16 days January 2017 snowfall 241cm observed on 16 days February 2017 snowfall 105cm observed on 14 days March 2017 snowfall 9cm 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.