SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Attitash Mountain Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Attitash Mountain Resort
Average winter
2.1 m82 in
Snowiest winter
3.4 m135 in
Leanest winter
1.1 m42 in
Powder days a winter
6

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 14% of 736 resorts

+1.5°C+2.7°F

The trend: from -7°C20°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-8°18°-6°21°-4°25°

Snowfall at the summit

−14%

The trend: from 2.2 m88 in to 1.9 m76 in. Point at a winter to read it.

1.0 m39 in2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in

Powder days at the summit

−1 day

The trend: from 6 to 5. Point at a winter to read it.

051015

Days with a base at the summit

−28 days

The trend: from 115 to 87. Point at a winter to read it.

050100150

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−4 days

The trend: from 39 to 35. Point at a winter to read it.

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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−9%

Then

2.2 m88 in

Now

2.0 m80 in

Snowfall in the village−12%

Then

1.6 m64 in

Now

1.4 m56 in

Powder days at the summit−1 day

Then

6

Now

6

Days with a base at the summit−19 days

Then

116

Now

97

Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+1.9°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

Most snow in a day
42 cm17 in
Snowiest winter
3.4 m135 in
Leanest winter
1.1 m42 in
Deepest snow on the ground
163 cm64 in
Coldest night at the summit
-37°C-34°F
Strongest gust at the summit
132 km/h82 mph

All winters

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