Björnrike, Sweden. 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 90% of 736 resorts
+3.0°C+5.4°F
The trend: from -10°C15°F to -7°C20°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−3%
The trend: from 1.6 m61 in to 1.5 m59 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
−26 days
The trend: from 152 to 126. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 46 to 45. 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−3%
Then
1.5 m60 in
Now
1.5 m59 in
- Snowfall in the village−6%
Then
1.2 m48 in
Now
1.1 m45 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−15 days
Then
147
Now
131
- Average temperature at the summit+1.9°C+3.4°F
Then
-9°C16°F
Now
-7°C19°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
- 1950s1950/512.0 m80 in1951/521.1 m44 in1952/531.4 m55 in1953/541.1 m43 in1954/551.3 m52 in1955/561.4 m55 in1956/571.2 m46 in1957/581.1 m43 in1958/591.7 m65 in1959/601.9 m74 in
- 1960s1960/611.5 m61 in1961/621.6 m64 in1962/631.1 m43 in1963/6478 cm31 in1964/651.7 m67 in1965/662.3 m90 in1966/672.2 m86 in1967/681.6 m61 in1968/691.7 m67 in1969/701.7 m67 in
- 1970s1970/711.7 m65 in1971/721.5 m57 in1972/731.7 m65 in1973/741.4 m56 in1974/751.8 m72 in1975/761.4 m55 in1976/772.1 m82 in1977/781.6 m63 in1978/791.2 m49 in1979/801.2 m48 in
- 1980s1980/811.5 m58 in1981/821.9 m75 in1982/831.6 m64 in1983/841.2 m49 in1984/851.9 m76 in1985/861.6 m64 in1986/871.7 m68 in1987/882.3 m91 in1988/891.7 m68 in1989/901.6 m63 in
- 1990s1990/911.4 m53 in1991/921.7 m68 in1992/931.4 m56 in1993/941.5 m57 in1994/952.1 m83 in1995/9676 cm30 in1996/971.4 m55 in1997/981.6 m63 in1998/991.7 m67 in1999/001.6 m64 in
- 2000s2000/011.9 m76 in2001/021.5 m60 in2002/031.2 m46 in2003/041.1 m43 in2004/051.3 m51 in2005/061.6 m61 in2006/071.3 m52 in2007/082.0 m80 in2008/091.6 m63 in2009/101.3 m52 in
- 2010s2010/111.3 m52 in2011/121.5 m58 in2012/131.0 m40 in2013/141.6 m63 in2014/151.5 m60 in2015/161.5 m57 in2016/171.3 m53 in2017/181.9 m73 in2018/191.5 m60 in2019/201.6 m61 in
- 2020s2020/211.6 m61 in2021/221.2 m47 in2022/231.7 m66 in2023/242.0 m80 in2024/251.1 m44 in2025/261.2 m48 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