Alpe Cermis, Italy. 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 95% of 736 resorts
+3.1°C+5.7°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−23%
The trend: from 2.6 m100 in to 2.0 m78 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 6 to 5. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−60 days
The trend: from 150 to 90. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−64 days
The trend: from 98 to 34. 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−20%
Then
2.6 m101 in
Now
2.1 m81 in
- Snowfall in the village−48%
Then
74.067 cm29 in
Now
38.7 cm15 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
7
Now
5
- Days with a base at the summit−39 days
Then
139
Now
101
- Days with a base in the village−49 days
Then
90
Now
41
- Average temperature at the summit+1.8°C+3.3°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-5°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
- 1950s1950/515.5 m216 in1951/521.2 m49 in1952/531.4 m57 in1953/541.5 m59 in1954/551.7 m68 in1955/561.5 m58 in1956/571.8 m70 in1957/582.8 m109 in1958/592.4 m95 in1959/604.1 m160 in
- 1960s1960/612.2 m86 in1961/623.0 m116 in1962/632.7 m104 in1963/641.9 m74 in1964/652.5 m99 in1965/661.9 m76 in1966/672.4 m95 in1967/682.0 m80 in1968/692.4 m94 in1969/702.5 m96 in
- 1970s1970/712.6 m104 in1971/723.5 m139 in1972/731.9 m75 in1973/742.8 m108 in1974/752.9 m113 in1975/762.1 m84 in1976/773.6 m143 in1977/783.8 m148 in1978/793.5 m139 in1979/803.1 m124 in
- 1980s1980/811.5 m57 in1981/821.6 m61 in1982/831.8 m72 in1983/842.7 m105 in1984/852.9 m114 in1985/863.0 m119 in1986/872.4 m95 in1987/882.2 m86 in1988/891.9 m73 in1989/901.7 m65 in
- 1990s1990/912.4 m93 in1991/922.1 m83 in1992/931.6 m61 in1993/941.6 m63 in1994/951.6 m61 in1995/961.6 m62 in1996/971.4 m55 in1997/981.9 m75 in1998/991.6 m61 in1999/001.5 m59 in
- 2000s2000/013.0 m116 in2001/021.4 m55 in2002/031.4 m55 in2003/042.9 m115 in2004/051.6 m65 in2005/062.1 m81 in2006/071.4 m54 in2007/081.7 m69 in2008/094.2 m164 in2009/102.6 m103 in
- 2010s2010/112.4 m93 in2011/121.2 m46 in2012/132.4 m93 in2013/144.5 m178 in2014/151.6 m63 in2015/162.1 m82 in2016/1783 cm33 in2017/182.6 m102 in2018/191.7 m67 in2019/202.8 m109 in
- 2020s2020/213.1 m122 in2021/221.5 m59 in2022/231.6 m63 in2023/242.6 m101 in2024/251.4 m54 in2025/261.3 m52 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