Arhyz, Russia. 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 1% of 736 resorts
+0.4°C+0.7°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
±0%
The trend: from 5.1 m201 in to 5.1 m202 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 15 to 13. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 164 to 162. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+2 days
The trend: from 81 to 83. 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+1%
Then
5.1 m199 in
Now
5.1 m201 in
- Snowfall in the village+6%
Then
2.3 m91 in
Now
2.4 m96 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
15
Now
14
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
163
Now
160
- Average temperature at the summit+0.2°C+0.3°F
Then
-8°C18°F
Now
-8°C18°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
- 1950s1950/512.9 m115 in1951/525.1 m202 in1952/535.4 m213 in1953/545.3 m207 in1954/554.2 m165 in1955/566.9 m271 in1956/574.9 m194 in1957/587.2 m283 in1958/594.3 m169 in1959/604.6 m182 in
- 1960s1960/614.1 m163 in1961/625.4 m214 in1962/637.1 m279 in1963/644.6 m180 in1964/655.0 m197 in1965/665.3 m210 in1966/674.6 m181 in1967/686.9 m272 in1968/693.3 m131 in1969/705.4 m211 in
- 1970s1970/714.4 m172 in1971/724.8 m189 in1972/734.1 m162 in1973/745.1 m199 in1974/755.1 m202 in1975/765.3 m208 in1976/774.2 m163 in1977/785.4 m213 in1978/795.9 m233 in1979/804.8 m187 in
- 1980s1980/815.5 m215 in1981/826.3 m250 in1982/834.5 m178 in1983/844.9 m192 in1984/854.3 m169 in1985/864.1 m160 in1986/878.1 m318 in1987/885.6 m221 in1988/895.6 m222 in1989/906.2 m244 in
- 1990s1990/913.6 m143 in1991/924.4 m171 in1992/936.3 m246 in1993/943.7 m146 in1994/956.0 m234 in1995/964.7 m183 in1996/975.4 m214 in1997/984.7 m183 in1998/994.7 m184 in1999/005.0 m198 in
- 2000s2000/014.1 m160 in2001/026.3 m248 in2002/034.5 m177 in2003/045.0 m196 in2004/056.2 m246 in2005/065.8 m229 in2006/075.5 m217 in2007/085.3 m209 in2008/095.6 m220 in2009/106.5 m255 in
- 2010s2010/114.6 m181 in2011/124.2 m165 in2012/134.7 m186 in2013/143.7 m147 in2014/155.2 m206 in2015/165.3 m209 in2016/174.5 m178 in2017/185.1 m200 in2018/195.2 m205 in2019/204.2 m163 in
- 2020s2020/215.5 m218 in2021/225.7 m224 in2022/234.6 m179 in2023/246.1 m238 in2024/254.4 m171 in2025/265.5 m215 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