76 winters, day by day
Angel Fire Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Angel Fire 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 46% of 736 resorts
+2.1°C+3.7°F
The trend: from -6°C20°F to -4°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−6%
The trend: from 1.4 m55 in to 1.3 m51 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 31 to 20. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 38 to 33. 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−4%
Then
1.3 m51 in
Now
1.3 m49 in
- Snowfall in the village−8%
Then
97.7 cm38 in
Now
90.067 cm35 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−10 days
Then
23
Now
13
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-6°C21°F
Now
-5°C23°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
- 1950s1950/511.2 m46 in1951/521.8 m72 in1952/531.0 m40 in1953/5498 cm39 in1954/5591 cm36 in1955/5693 cm37 in1956/571.4 m56 in1957/581.7 m66 in1958/591.2 m47 in1959/601.4 m54 in
- 1960s1960/611.7 m65 in1961/621.4 m56 in1962/631.1 m42 in1963/641.3 m49 in1964/651.8 m71 in1965/661.0 m39 in1966/6767 cm26 in1967/681.4 m56 in1968/691.2 m48 in1969/701.1 m44 in
- 1970s1970/7184 cm33 in1971/7273 cm29 in1972/731.8 m72 in1973/741.3 m52 in1974/751.8 m71 in1975/761.2 m49 in1976/771.2 m48 in1977/781.0 m41 in1978/791.8 m71 in1979/802.2 m86 in
- 1980s1980/8191 cm36 in1981/821.6 m61 in1982/832.0 m78 in1983/842.0 m78 in1984/851.9 m73 in1985/861.1 m43 in1986/872.3 m91 in1987/881.5 m59 in1988/891.4 m54 in1989/901.3 m52 in
- 1990s1990/911.2 m49 in1991/921.7 m67 in1992/932.2 m86 in1993/941.9 m73 in1994/951.5 m60 in1995/961.1 m41 in1996/971.8 m71 in1997/981.5 m58 in1998/991.3 m50 in1999/001.0 m40 in
- 2000s2000/011.2 m48 in2001/0276 cm30 in2002/031.3 m52 in2003/041.9 m73 in2004/051.8 m72 in2005/0675 cm30 in2006/071.3 m52 in2007/081.3 m53 in2008/091.4 m54 in2009/101.6 m64 in
- 2010s2010/1187 cm34 in2011/121.1 m43 in2012/1380 cm31 in2013/141.1 m44 in2014/151.5 m59 in2015/161.5 m59 in2016/171.8 m72 in2017/1852 cm20 in2018/191.6 m64 in2019/201.3 m51 in
- 2020s2020/211.3 m49 in2021/221.0 m40 in2022/231.3 m50 in2023/241.4 m55 in2024/251.1 m42 in2025/2645 cm18 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