76 winters, day by day
Brian Head Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Brian Head Resort, 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 33% of 736 resorts
+1.9°C+3.4°F
The trend: from -8°C17°F to -6°C21°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−11%
The trend: from 1.7 m69 in to 1.6 m61 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 2 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−25 days
The trend: from 97 to 72. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 40 to 34. 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−10%
Then
1.7 m67 in
Now
1.5 m60 in
- Snowfall in the village−10%
Then
1.7 m67 in
Now
1.5 m60 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
2
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−17 days
Then
89
Now
71
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.1°F
Then
-8°C18°F
Now
-7°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
- 1950s1950/511.3 m52 in1951/522.5 m98 in1952/531.5 m57 in1953/541.7 m66 in1954/551.4 m54 in1955/561.4 m56 in1956/571.7 m68 in1957/582.1 m81 in1958/591.0 m41 in1959/601.5 m60 in
- 1960s1960/611.4 m53 in1961/621.9 m76 in1962/631.2 m46 in1963/641.6 m61 in1964/652.3 m91 in1965/661.3 m51 in1966/671.5 m59 in1967/681.9 m75 in1968/692.4 m95 in1969/701.3 m50 in
- 1970s1970/711.3 m49 in1971/7293 cm37 in1972/732.5 m98 in1973/741.6 m63 in1974/752.0 m78 in1975/761.5 m58 in1976/7767 cm26 in1977/782.5 m97 in1978/792.6 m102 in1979/802.6 m103 in
- 1980s1980/811.3 m51 in1981/821.9 m76 in1982/832.8 m110 in1983/841.8 m72 in1984/852.0 m78 in1985/861.8 m70 in1986/871.5 m58 in1987/881.7 m69 in1988/891.3 m50 in1989/901.3 m52 in
- 1990s1990/911.6 m64 in1991/921.7 m68 in1992/932.5 m99 in1993/941.5 m60 in1994/952.2 m85 in1995/961.1 m43 in1996/971.8 m71 in1997/982.0 m77 in1998/991.5 m57 in1999/001.2 m48 in
- 2000s2000/011.6 m65 in2001/0283 cm33 in2002/031.4 m54 in2003/041.4 m55 in2004/052.3 m89 in2005/061.5 m57 in2006/071.2 m47 in2007/081.6 m65 in2008/091.5 m59 in2009/102.2 m88 in
- 2010s2010/112.4 m93 in2011/121.3 m52 in2012/131.1 m44 in2013/1494 cm37 in2014/151.3 m50 in2015/161.6 m63 in2016/171.9 m76 in2017/181.0 m41 in2018/192.2 m88 in2019/201.8 m72 in
- 2020s2020/211.1 m44 in2021/221.2 m45 in2022/232.6 m102 in2023/241.7 m66 in2024/251.0 m40 in2025/2691 cm36 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