76 winters, day by day
Bridger Bowl, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Bridger Bowl, 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 16% of 736 resorts
+1.5°C+2.7°F
The trend: from -10°C13°F to -9°C16°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−10%
The trend: from 1.7 m66 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
−40 days
The trend: from 137 to 96. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 51 to 46. 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
1.6 m65 in
Now
1.5 m58 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−27 days
Then
129
Now
102
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.7°F
Then
-10°C13°F
Now
-9°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
- 1950s1950/511.7 m65 in1951/521.5 m57 in1952/531.5 m58 in1953/541.4 m54 in1954/551.4 m57 in1955/561.5 m59 in1956/571.6 m62 in1957/581.5 m58 in1958/591.7 m66 in1959/601.4 m54 in
- 1960s1960/611.4 m54 in1961/621.5 m61 in1962/631.6 m62 in1963/641.9 m74 in1964/651.6 m63 in1965/661.3 m51 in1966/672.2 m86 in1967/682.1 m81 in1968/691.5 m59 in1969/701.8 m72 in
- 1970s1970/711.7 m65 in1971/721.9 m73 in1972/732.0 m78 in1973/741.6 m63 in1974/752.0 m80 in1975/762.0 m80 in1976/771.3 m50 in1977/781.4 m54 in1978/791.8 m71 in1979/801.9 m76 in
- 1980s1980/811.2 m49 in1981/822.2 m85 in1982/831.6 m63 in1983/842.0 m78 in1984/851.5 m57 in1985/861.7 m65 in1986/871.5 m57 in1987/881.7 m68 in1988/892.1 m83 in1989/901.6 m62 in
- 1990s1990/911.9 m73 in1991/921.3 m49 in1992/931.8 m70 in1993/941.2 m48 in1994/951.8 m72 in1995/961.7 m68 in1996/972.0 m78 in1997/981.3 m52 in1998/991.5 m60 in1999/001.2 m48 in
- 2000s2000/011.1 m44 in2001/021.1 m44 in2002/031.7 m65 in2003/041.3 m50 in2004/051.3 m51 in2005/061.5 m58 in2006/071.2 m47 in2007/081.6 m63 in2008/091.8 m72 in2009/101.3 m53 in
- 2010s2010/112.2 m85 in2011/121.4 m57 in2012/131.3 m52 in2013/141.9 m74 in2014/151.4 m54 in2015/161.3 m52 in2016/171.5 m61 in2017/182.3 m92 in2018/191.5 m57 in2019/201.3 m53 in
- 2020s2020/211.4 m55 in2021/221.4 m56 in2022/231.7 m66 in2023/241.1 m41 in2024/251.7 m66 in2025/261.1 m45 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