76 winters, day by day
Big White Ski Resort, Canada. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Big White Ski Resort, Canada. 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 41% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.6°F
The trend: from -11°C12°F to -9°C16°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−17%
The trend: from 2.6 m104 in to 2.2 m86 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 161 to 149. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 77 to 67. 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
2.6 m103 in
Now
2.3 m91 in
- Snowfall in the village−13%
Then
2.4 m94 in
Now
2.1 m82 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−7 days
Then
158
Now
152
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-11°C13°F
Now
-10°C15°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
- 1950s1950/512.7 m106 in1951/522.4 m95 in1952/532.8 m108 in1953/543.0 m120 in1954/552.2 m87 in1955/562.8 m109 in1956/572.2 m87 in1957/582.8 m109 in1958/592.8 m109 in1959/602.4 m95 in
- 1960s1960/612.7 m105 in1961/622.5 m96 in1962/632.2 m87 in1963/643.0 m118 in1964/652.4 m95 in1965/662.9 m113 in1966/673.4 m132 in1967/682.7 m107 in1968/692.7 m106 in1969/702.1 m82 in
- 1970s1970/713.1 m121 in1971/723.1 m123 in1972/732.2 m86 in1973/743.4 m135 in1974/752.8 m109 in1975/762.9 m114 in1976/771.6 m65 in1977/782.7 m106 in1978/791.9 m76 in1979/802.0 m79 in
- 1980s1980/812.0 m80 in1981/822.8 m108 in1982/832.9 m112 in1983/842.2 m86 in1984/851.8 m72 in1985/861.7 m66 in1986/871.9 m73 in1987/882.2 m85 in1988/891.9 m73 in1989/902.2 m85 in
- 1990s1990/912.6 m101 in1991/921.8 m69 in1992/932.0 m78 in1993/942.1 m82 in1994/952.4 m94 in1995/962.6 m103 in1996/972.9 m113 in1997/982.0 m78 in1998/993.2 m125 in1999/002.4 m95 in
- 2000s2000/011.5 m60 in2001/022.4 m93 in2002/032.1 m82 in2003/042.0 m80 in2004/051.9 m75 in2005/062.6 m102 in2006/072.3 m90 in2007/082.1 m83 in2008/092.0 m78 in2009/101.8 m70 in
- 2010s2010/112.8 m111 in2011/122.7 m106 in2012/132.7 m106 in2013/142.5 m96 in2014/151.9 m74 in2015/162.7 m106 in2016/172.5 m98 in2017/183.3 m131 in2018/191.7 m69 in2019/202.4 m96 in
- 2020s2020/212.3 m89 in2021/222.2 m88 in2022/232.4 m95 in2023/242.1 m81 in2024/252.1 m83 in2025/262.1 m84 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