76 winters, day by day
Bear Valley, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Bear Valley, 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 18% of 736 resorts
+1.5°C+2.8°F
The trend: from -4°C25°F to -3°C27°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−9%
The trend: from 5.2 m204 in to 4.7 m185 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 18 to 17. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−27 days
The trend: from 144 to 116. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 54 to 51. 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
5.1 m200 in
Now
4.9 m193 in
- Snowfall in the village−9%
Then
3.4 m136 in
Now
3.1 m123 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
18
Now
17
- Days with a base at the summit−13 days
Then
136
Now
123
- Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.6°F
Then
-4°C25°F
Now
-3°C27°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
- 1950s1950/514.7 m184 in1951/529.1 m357 in1952/535.8 m228 in1953/544.9 m194 in1954/554.6 m181 in1955/566.0 m236 in1956/573.9 m154 in1957/587.2 m281 in1958/593.4 m133 in1959/604.1 m160 in
- 1960s1960/613.6 m143 in1961/625.8 m228 in1962/633.8 m150 in1963/643.6 m140 in1964/655.9 m234 in1965/664.3 m170 in1966/677.7 m304 in1967/683.7 m146 in1968/698.0 m315 in1969/703.9 m153 in
- 1970s1970/716.0 m235 in1971/723.8 m148 in1972/735.6 m220 in1973/745.8 m230 in1974/756.6 m261 in1975/762.3 m89 in1976/771.8 m70 in1977/786.8 m267 in1978/794.7 m184 in1979/805.0 m196 in
- 1980s1980/813.5 m139 in1981/826.1 m241 in1982/838.8 m346 in1983/845.1 m199 in1984/854.6 m181 in1985/865.9 m233 in1986/872.6 m103 in1987/883.0 m117 in1988/894.4 m173 in1989/902.7 m107 in
- 1990s1990/913.8 m149 in1991/922.9 m114 in1992/936.7 m262 in1993/943.1 m121 in1994/957.3 m286 in1995/965.4 m211 in1996/975.0 m198 in1997/986.6 m258 in1998/995.8 m230 in1999/004.7 m185 in
- 2000s2000/013.6 m141 in2001/024.4 m174 in2002/034.7 m186 in2003/044.2 m167 in2004/056.1 m241 in2005/066.8 m268 in2006/073.4 m132 in2007/084.5 m178 in2008/094.4 m174 in2009/105.9 m233 in
- 2010s2010/117.9 m312 in2011/123.5 m136 in2012/133.2 m124 in2013/142.7 m108 in2014/152.0 m78 in2015/165.4 m211 in2016/178.2 m324 in2017/183.5 m137 in2018/196.9 m273 in2019/204.2 m164 in
- 2020s2020/213.5 m138 in2021/223.7 m147 in2022/239.1 m357 in2023/244.9 m194 in2024/254.4 m173 in2025/263.5 m136 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