Caviahue, Argentina. Every ski winter from 1950 to 2025.
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 0% of 736 resorts
+0.2°C+0.4°F
The trend: from -2°C28°F to -2°C29°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+13%
The trend: from 4.2 m163 in to 4.7 m185 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+2 days
The trend: from 14 to 16. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 142 to 134. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 50 to 50. 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 1950–1979Now 1996–2025
- Snowfall at the summit+8%
Then
4.2 m164 in
Now
4.5 m177 in
- Snowfall in the village−7%
Then
2.2 m87 in
Now
2.0 m81 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
14
Now
15
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
139
Now
136
- Average temperature at the summit+0.2°C+0.3°F
Then
-2°C28°F
Now
-2°C28°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
- 1950s19504.0 m157 in19514.4 m172 in19522.7 m106 in19534.2 m167 in19546.2 m246 in19552.6 m102 in19564.3 m170 in19575.8 m228 in19584.3 m168 in19593.7 m144 in
- 1960s19603.4 m132 in19614.3 m169 in19622.6 m101 in19635.1 m201 in19644.2 m165 in19654.1 m161 in19664.8 m189 in19672.8 m110 in19681.9 m74 in19694.5 m177 in
- 1970s19703.0 m119 in19713.6 m140 in19724.8 m187 in19734.7 m183 in19743.6 m143 in19755.3 m208 in19763.8 m151 in19776.1 m238 in19785.0 m195 in19795.4 m211 in
- 1980s19804.6 m182 in19813.5 m136 in19828.0 m314 in19835.2 m203 in19845.5 m216 in19852.6 m104 in19864.0 m156 in19874.0 m159 in19885.9 m233 in19895.0 m196 in
- 1990s19903.0 m118 in19913.4 m135 in19924.6 m181 in19935.8 m226 in19945.3 m209 in19956.1 m242 in19962.5 m99 in19974.6 m180 in19982.2 m85 in19995.2 m206 in
- 2000s20006.7 m264 in20015.4 m213 in20025.9 m232 in20033.7 m146 in20044.6 m179 in20056.1 m241 in20066.8 m269 in20073.7 m145 in20084.4 m174 in20094.4 m171 in
- 2010s20104.1 m162 in20114.8 m191 in20122.0 m80 in20134.2 m164 in20145.0 m195 in20154.8 m191 in20162.6 m101 in20176.2 m242 in20184.4 m175 in20194.8 m188 in
- 2020s20205.4 m212 in20213.0 m119 in20224.5 m177 in20236.1 m241 in20244.4 m172 in20252.6 m100 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