76 winters, day by day
49° North Mountain Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
49° North Mountain Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Every day of every winter
Each row is a winter, oldest at the top. Each column is a day, from the start of the season to the end. The darker the blue, the more snow fell that day.
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Climate change
Average winter temperature at the summit
Faster warming than 74% of 736 resorts
+2.5°C+4.5°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−34%
The trend: from 2.0 m77 in to 1.3 m51 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 2 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−53 days
The trend: from 107 to 54. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 47 to 35. Point at a winter to read it.
Each dot is one winter. The curve is a running average over about ten winters; the dotted line is the straight trend through all of them, and the changes above are measured along it. One winter is weather; the trend is climate.
Then and now
Then 1950/51–1979/80Now 1996/97–2025/26
- Snowfall at the summit−17%
Then
1.9 m74 in
Now
1.5 m61 in
- Snowfall in the village−17%
Then
1.8 m72 in
Now
1.5 m60 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
2
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−25 days
Then
99
Now
73
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.8°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-6°C22°F
Averages per winter over the first and last 30 winters. A powder day brings 10 cm4 in or more of new snow; a base is 30 cm12 in or more on the ground.
Records
All winters
- 1950s1950/512.3 m92 in1951/522.8 m108 in1952/532.2 m87 in1953/541.9 m74 in1954/551.7 m65 in1955/562.9 m113 in1956/571.4 m56 in1957/581.9 m75 in1958/592.1 m83 in1959/601.7 m69 in
- 1960s1960/612.0 m77 in1961/621.8 m70 in1962/631.1 m43 in1963/642.5 m100 in1964/652.1 m81 in1965/662.0 m78 in1966/671.7 m67 in1967/681.4 m56 in1968/692.4 m94 in1969/701.4 m53 in
- 1970s1970/712.7 m104 in1971/721.9 m73 in1972/731.1 m43 in1973/742.4 m94 in1974/752.5 m98 in1975/761.8 m70 in1976/7757 cm22 in1977/781.6 m64 in1978/791.4 m55 in1979/801.4 m55 in
- 1980s1980/8176 cm30 in1981/821.4 m56 in1982/831.6 m61 in1983/841.6 m62 in1984/851.8 m70 in1985/861.3 m49 in1986/871.1 m43 in1987/8891 cm36 in1988/891.5 m59 in1989/901.4 m53 in
- 1990s1990/911.2 m47 in1991/9285 cm33 in1992/931.6 m62 in1993/941.3 m49 in1994/951.6 m62 in1995/961.6 m62 in1996/973.0 m117 in1997/981.4 m55 in1998/992.4 m94 in1999/001.8 m72 in
- 2000s2000/011.2 m48 in2001/021.9 m74 in2002/031.1 m45 in2003/041.4 m56 in2004/0597 cm38 in2005/061.7 m67 in2006/071.6 m63 in2007/082.2 m87 in2008/091.7 m67 in2009/1088 cm35 in
- 2010s2010/111.8 m72 in2011/121.5 m60 in2012/131.5 m61 in2013/141.2 m48 in2014/1583 cm33 in2015/161.5 m59 in2016/172.0 m78 in2017/182.2 m86 in2018/191.4 m54 in2019/201.3 m50 in
- 2020s2020/211.3 m53 in2021/221.3 m52 in2022/231.8 m72 in2023/241.1 m44 in2024/251.5 m61 in2025/2672 cm28 in
Modelled weather from ERA5 and ERA5-Land, not measured on the slopes. Snow depth is the average over a grid cell about 9 km wide, so it can differ a lot from what the piste report says. How SnowOdds works