76 winters, day by day
Brundage Mountain, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Brundage Mountain, 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 6% of 736 resorts
+1.0°C+1.9°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -7°C20°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−23%
The trend: from 4.5 m175 in to 3.4 m135 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 9 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 159 to 154. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−13 days
The trend: from 85 to 71. 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−14%
Then
4.3 m171 in
Now
3.7 m146 in
- Snowfall in the village−14%
Then
4.3 m171 in
Now
3.7 m146 in
- Powder days at the summit−2 days
Then
9
Now
7
- Days with a base at the summit−1 day
Then
156
Now
155
- Average temperature at the summit+0.7°C+1.2°F
Then
-7°C19°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
- 1950s1950/514.4 m171 in1951/524.9 m194 in1952/535.1 m202 in1953/545.1 m200 in1954/553.8 m150 in1955/565.3 m208 in1956/573.9 m154 in1957/584.7 m184 in1958/594.1 m161 in1959/603.7 m144 in
- 1960s1960/614.2 m163 in1961/624.0 m157 in1962/633.0 m119 in1963/644.3 m169 in1964/655.2 m204 in1965/663.5 m137 in1966/675.4 m211 in1967/683.5 m138 in1968/694.6 m182 in1969/704.5 m177 in
- 1970s1970/715.6 m220 in1971/725.3 m208 in1972/733.3 m130 in1973/746.2 m245 in1974/755.1 m201 in1975/764.1 m163 in1976/771.6 m61 in1977/784.5 m176 in1978/793.5 m136 in1979/804.0 m157 in
- 1980s1980/812.8 m108 in1981/825.2 m203 in1982/834.8 m190 in1983/844.2 m165 in1984/853.5 m137 in1985/864.0 m159 in1986/872.4 m96 in1987/883.1 m121 in1988/894.0 m158 in1989/902.6 m104 in
- 1990s1990/913.2 m126 in1991/922.4 m94 in1992/933.9 m153 in1993/942.8 m112 in1994/954.4 m175 in1995/964.5 m177 in1996/974.9 m192 in1997/983.4 m133 in1998/995.6 m219 in1999/003.6 m142 in
- 2000s2000/012.1 m84 in2001/023.8 m148 in2002/033.9 m155 in2003/043.5 m137 in2004/052.5 m99 in2005/065.0 m198 in2006/073.2 m124 in2007/084.3 m168 in2008/093.7 m147 in2009/103.0 m119 in
- 2010s2010/114.7 m187 in2011/123.7 m147 in2012/133.1 m124 in2013/143.8 m149 in2014/152.7 m107 in2015/163.8 m151 in2016/174.5 m176 in2017/183.6 m140 in2018/194.1 m160 in2019/203.3 m131 in
- 2020s2020/213.5 m137 in2021/223.2 m126 in2022/234.1 m163 in2023/243.3 m131 in2024/254.3 m168 in2025/263.4 m132 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