76 winters, day by day
Burke Mountain Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Burke Mountain 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 27% of 736 resorts
+1.8°C+3.2°F
The trend: from -9°C17°F to -7°C20°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−14%
The trend: from 1.8 m72 in to 1.6 m62 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 3 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−42 days
The trend: from 109 to 66. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 43 to 37. 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−9%
Then
1.8 m72 in
Now
1.7 m66 in
- Snowfall in the village−11%
Then
1.4 m57 in
Now
1.3 m51 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−27 days
Then
106
Now
79
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-8°C17°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
- 1950s1950/511.8 m72 in1951/522.2 m87 in1952/531.6 m64 in1953/542.1 m81 in1954/551.8 m71 in1955/562.0 m79 in1956/571.3 m50 in1957/582.4 m95 in1958/591.9 m74 in1959/601.8 m70 in
- 1960s1960/611.5 m59 in1961/621.8 m72 in1962/632.1 m83 in1963/641.4 m53 in1964/651.4 m53 in1965/661.7 m67 in1966/671.5 m57 in1967/681.5 m60 in1968/692.5 m100 in1969/701.7 m65 in
- 1970s1970/712.3 m89 in1971/722.4 m94 in1972/732.1 m81 in1973/741.8 m72 in1974/752.0 m77 in1975/762.2 m87 in1976/771.8 m69 in1977/781.9 m75 in1978/791.9 m73 in1979/8089 cm35 in
- 1980s1980/811.1 m44 in1981/822.0 m78 in1982/831.1 m45 in1983/841.8 m70 in1984/851.7 m66 in1985/861.5 m58 in1986/871.6 m63 in1987/881.4 m54 in1988/891.3 m52 in1989/901.5 m59 in
- 1990s1990/911.2 m48 in1991/921.3 m52 in1992/931.7 m66 in1993/941.9 m76 in1994/951.2 m48 in1995/962.0 m78 in1996/972.2 m85 in1997/981.7 m67 in1998/991.6 m62 in1999/001.6 m63 in
- 2000s2000/012.0 m80 in2001/021.6 m63 in2002/031.6 m63 in2003/041.6 m61 in2004/051.4 m57 in2005/061.2 m45 in2006/072.2 m85 in2007/082.3 m92 in2008/091.7 m67 in2009/101.4 m57 in
- 2010s2010/112.0 m80 in2011/121.1 m43 in2012/131.4 m54 in2013/141.6 m63 in2014/151.9 m76 in2015/1690 cm35 in2016/171.9 m75 in2017/181.8 m70 in2018/192.3 m89 in2019/201.8 m69 in
- 2020s2020/211.3 m52 in2021/221.5 m60 in2022/231.7 m67 in2023/241.9 m73 in2024/251.7 m66 in2025/261.5 m58 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