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Zao Now daily snow and weather - Wednesday 5th December 2012

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ARCHIVE REPORT: Posted at 1:03pm on Wednesday 5th December 2012
Current weather conditions
Observed fresh snowfall AT BASE
weather condition
Cloud cover 		Base temp:
3°C

Top temp:
-2°C
Precipitation Wind Visibility
precipitation condition
Light snow 		wind condition
Moderate wind 		Fair
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This report
Wednesday 5th December 2012, 1:03pm 		10cm
Sunday 2nd December 2012, 9:13am 10cm
Friday 30th November 2012, 16:18pm 0cm
Wednesday 28th November 2012, 11:00am 3cm
Thursday 22nd November 2012, 9:39am 0cm
Friday 9th November 2012, 11:46am 0cm
Tuesday 25th September 2012, 16:30pm ---
Last 7 reports (total): 23cm
Last 14 reports (total): 23cm
Current month (December 2012) total: 20cm
2012/2013 season so far total: 23cm

Archive report: Posted at 1:03pm on Wednesday 5th December 2012
The latest Zao Now report can be found here

My apologies for not updating the page yesterday. But things should be ok from now on.

So yes, Zao is now open. We have the Chuo No1 pair lift operating and that's about it. (The Ropeways are operating but that is for sightseeing and not for skiing or snowboarding).

Chuo is reporting 30cm of snow on the slopes and so as you can see it is all very limited.

Yesterday saw some stormy conditions on the mountain but we got about 10cm or so of fresh in the village so hopefully more than that higher up.

Things are looking good for snow over the next week and come the weekend perhaps the first heavy snowfall of the season. It's going to get very cold and windy with the snow as well - look out for some particularly strong winds tomorrow and over the weekend as well.

Archive report: Posted at 1:03pm on Wednesday 5th December 2012
The latest Zao Now report can be found here

Zao Now ski lift operation notes:

Zao Onsen is part open. Very limited at the moment.

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  2012/2013
*as of Wednesday 5th December 2012 		2011/2012
Season		 2010/2011
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5th December 10cm - -
2nd December 10cm - -
30th November 0cm - -
28th November 3cm - -
22nd November 0cm - -
9th November 0cm - -
25th September - - -
Previous 7 days total 23cm 0cm 0cm
Previous 14 days total 23cm 0cm 0cm
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December observed snowfall total 20cm - -
January observed snowfall total - - -
February observed snowfall total - - -
March observed snowfall total - - -
April observed snowfall total - - -
May observed snowfall total - - -
Season observed snowfall total 23cm 0cm 0cm
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This report (Wednesday 5th December 2012, 13:03pm) 10cm
Sunday 2nd December 2012, 9:13am 10cm
Friday 30th November 2012, 16:18pm 0cm
Wednesday 28th November 2012, 11:00am 3cm
Thursday 22nd November 2012, 9:39am 0cm
Friday 9th November 2012, 11:46am 0cm
Tuesday 25th September 2012, 16:30pm cm
Sunday 6th May 2012, 10:59am cm
Thursday 3rd May 2012, 10:47am cm
Tuesday 1st May 2012, 10:54am cm
Friday 27th April 2012, 12:08pm cm
Tuesday 24th April 2012, 9:59am cm
Sunday 22nd April 2012, 10:01am cm
Friday 20th April 2012, 9:38am cm
Thursday 19th April 2012, 10:15am cm
Sunday 11th December 2011, 10:17am cm
Saturday 10th December 2011, 9:17am cm
Friday 9th December 2011, 9:28am cm
Tuesday 6th December 2011, 9:21am cm
Sunday 4th December 2011, 9:55am cm
Friday 2nd December 2011, 9:19am cm
Thursday 1st December 2011, 15:10pm cm
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