76 winters, day by day
Blue Resort Norikura, Japan. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Blue Resort Norikura, Japan. 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 12% of 736 resorts
+1.4°C+2.5°F
The trend: from -6°C21°F to -5°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−5%
The trend: from 2.3 m92 in to 2.2 m87 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
−8 days
The trend: from 127 to 120. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 58 to 52. 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−2%
Then
2.3 m90 in
Now
2.3 m89 in
- Snowfall in the village±0
Then
1.9 m76 in
Now
1.9 m76 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
124
Now
121
- Average temperature at the summit+0.8°C+1.4°F
Then
-6°C22°F
Now
-5°C23°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
- 1950s1950/512.4 m96 in1951/523.0 m117 in1952/532.2 m85 in1953/541.8 m70 in1954/552.4 m94 in1955/562.8 m110 in1956/572.1 m84 in1957/582.2 m85 in1958/592.2 m87 in1959/601.4 m54 in
- 1960s1960/612.0 m80 in1961/621.7 m68 in1962/632.4 m93 in1963/642.2 m85 in1964/652.5 m99 in1965/662.6 m103 in1966/672.0 m80 in1967/682.6 m101 in1968/692.7 m107 in1969/702.6 m104 in
- 1970s1970/711.9 m75 in1971/722.6 m100 in1972/732.1 m81 in1973/742.9 m113 in1974/752.5 m98 in1975/761.7 m67 in1976/772.6 m102 in1977/782.8 m110 in1978/791.7 m67 in1979/802.1 m83 in
- 1980s1980/812.8 m112 in1981/821.8 m70 in1982/832.3 m92 in1983/842.8 m110 in1984/852.2 m88 in1985/862.5 m97 in1986/872.3 m92 in1987/882.3 m90 in1988/892.1 m83 in1989/902.1 m81 in
- 1990s1990/912.3 m91 in1991/922.1 m83 in1992/932.0 m78 in1993/942.2 m88 in1994/952.0 m78 in1995/962.7 m107 in1996/971.9 m76 in1997/982.4 m93 in1998/992.0 m77 in1999/002.3 m92 in
- 2000s2000/012.8 m109 in2001/022.5 m96 in2002/033.3 m130 in2003/042.1 m81 in2004/052.3 m89 in2005/062.8 m111 in2006/071.5 m61 in2007/082.3 m91 in2008/092.4 m93 in2009/102.6 m104 in
- 2010s2010/112.0 m80 in2011/122.1 m83 in2012/132.8 m109 in2013/143.0 m117 in2014/153.4 m134 in2015/161.4 m56 in2016/172.1 m83 in2017/182.1 m81 in2018/192.0 m77 in2019/201.8 m70 in
- 2020s2020/211.8 m72 in2021/222.2 m85 in2022/231.5 m60 in2023/242.4 m93 in2024/252.5 m100 in2025/261.4 m56 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