76 winters, day by day
Belleayre Mountain Ski Center, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Belleayre Mountain Ski Center, 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 36% of 736 resorts
+1.9°C+3.5°F
The trend: from -5°C23°F to -3°C26°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−24%
The trend: from 1.9 m76 in to 1.5 m58 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 4 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−52 days
The trend: from 78 to 26. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−8 days
The trend: from 39 to 31. 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−16%
Then
1.9 m75 in
Now
1.6 m63 in
- Snowfall in the village−16%
Then
1.5 m57 in
Now
1.2 m48 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
4
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−37 days
Then
74
Now
37
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.4°F
Then
-5°C23°F
Now
-3°C26°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
- 1950s1950/511.9 m73 in1951/522.1 m83 in1952/531.7 m68 in1953/541.2 m48 in1954/552.0 m78 in1955/562.5 m100 in1956/571.8 m70 in1957/582.7 m108 in1958/591.5 m60 in1959/601.9 m76 in
- 1960s1960/612.1 m83 in1961/621.7 m66 in1962/632.0 m79 in1963/641.6 m62 in1964/651.6 m63 in1965/661.6 m63 in1966/672.1 m81 in1967/681.6 m65 in1968/691.8 m69 in1969/702.5 m97 in
- 1970s1970/712.4 m94 in1971/722.6 m101 in1972/731.9 m73 in1973/741.8 m72 in1974/751.8 m72 in1975/761.6 m61 in1976/771.9 m75 in1977/782.2 m86 in1978/791.8 m72 in1979/801.0 m39 in
- 1980s1980/811.1 m43 in1981/821.7 m68 in1982/831.8 m69 in1983/841.8 m72 in1984/851.4 m54 in1985/861.6 m63 in1986/871.8 m72 in1987/881.5 m59 in1988/891.0 m39 in1989/901.6 m61 in
- 1990s1990/911.1 m43 in1991/9284 cm33 in1992/932.4 m94 in1993/942.3 m89 in1994/9596 cm38 in1995/962.1 m83 in1996/972.2 m85 in1997/981.8 m70 in1998/991.3 m52 in1999/001.3 m52 in
- 2000s2000/012.0 m80 in2001/021.1 m43 in2002/032.3 m91 in2003/041.6 m61 in2004/051.6 m62 in2005/061.2 m46 in2006/071.7 m68 in2007/081.7 m65 in2008/091.4 m55 in2009/102.2 m87 in
- 2010s2010/112.0 m80 in2011/121.0 m39 in2012/131.4 m57 in2013/141.7 m67 in2014/151.8 m71 in2015/1643 cm17 in2016/171.9 m73 in2017/181.7 m67 in2018/191.9 m74 in2019/201.7 m68 in
- 2020s2020/211.4 m56 in2021/221.5 m57 in2022/231.7 m67 in2023/241.5 m58 in2024/251.5 m59 in2025/261.4 m55 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