76 winters, day by day
Beaver Mountain, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Beaver Mountain, 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 13% of 736 resorts
+1.4°C+2.6°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -6°C21°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−18%
The trend: from 2.9 m113 in to 2.4 m93 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 3 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−14 days
The trend: from 154 to 140. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 69 to 57. 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−11%
Then
2.8 m108 in
Now
2.5 m97 in
- Snowfall in the village−11%
Then
2.4 m96 in
Now
2.2 m85 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−6 days
Then
148
Now
142
- Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.6°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-6°C20°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
- 1950s1950/513.3 m130 in1951/523.7 m144 in1952/533.3 m128 in1953/542.5 m98 in1954/552.3 m91 in1955/563.2 m127 in1956/572.7 m107 in1957/583.0 m118 in1958/592.7 m105 in1959/602.1 m83 in
- 1960s1960/611.9 m75 in1961/622.8 m110 in1962/632.5 m96 in1963/642.6 m104 in1964/653.2 m126 in1965/662.1 m81 in1966/673.1 m122 in1967/682.3 m91 in1968/692.9 m113 in1969/702.6 m102 in
- 1970s1970/713.3 m128 in1971/723.2 m128 in1972/732.6 m101 in1973/743.1 m122 in1974/753.0 m119 in1975/762.5 m99 in1976/771.2 m46 in1977/783.1 m123 in1978/793.0 m116 in1979/803.0 m119 in
- 1980s1980/811.7 m66 in1981/823.8 m148 in1982/833.4 m132 in1983/843.8 m150 in1984/852.5 m97 in1985/863.8 m148 in1986/871.7 m65 in1987/882.0 m78 in1988/893.0 m117 in1989/901.9 m73 in
- 1990s1990/912.4 m95 in1991/921.6 m62 in1992/933.0 m120 in1993/941.8 m72 in1994/952.5 m97 in1995/962.9 m113 in1996/973.5 m139 in1997/982.7 m105 in1998/992.7 m107 in1999/002.1 m81 in
- 2000s2000/011.7 m69 in2001/022.1 m84 in2002/032.2 m86 in2003/042.3 m91 in2004/052.9 m113 in2005/063.1 m123 in2006/072.0 m78 in2007/082.5 m96 in2008/092.8 m109 in2009/101.9 m74 in
- 2010s2010/113.7 m145 in2011/121.6 m65 in2012/131.9 m76 in2013/142.5 m100 in2014/151.9 m74 in2015/162.4 m95 in2016/173.8 m150 in2017/182.0 m78 in2018/192.7 m106 in2019/202.4 m94 in
- 2020s2020/212.1 m83 in2021/222.0 m77 in2022/233.6 m143 in2023/242.6 m103 in2024/252.3 m92 in2025/261.7 m67 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