76 winters, day by day
Centro de Ski Chapa Verde, Chile. Every ski winter from 1950 to 2025.
Centro de Ski Chapa Verde, Chile. 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 5% of 736 resorts
+0.9°C+1.6°F
The trend: from -6°C20°F to -6°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−11%
The trend: from 5.8 m226 in to 5.2 m203 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 17 to 16. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 138 to 137. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−7 days
The trend: from 138 to 132. 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−4%
Then
5.4 m211 in
Now
5.1 m202 in
- Snowfall in the village+2%
Then
2.1 m82 in
Now
2.1 m83 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
16
Now
16
- Days with a base at the summit±0 days
Then
136
Now
136
- Days with a base in the village−3 days
Then
135
Now
132
- Average temperature at the summit+0.5°C+0.9°F
Then
-6°C21°F
Now
-6°C22°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
- 1950s19503.6 m141 in19516.4 m250 in19523.7 m146 in19535.8 m228 in19548.9 m349 in19552.1 m82 in19565.3 m209 in19577.2 m285 in19584.3 m170 in19596.1 m241 in
- 1960s19604.6 m183 in19616.2 m245 in19625.1 m201 in19637.8 m305 in19644.0 m156 in19656.3 m246 in19665.9 m231 in19674.0 m157 in19681.5 m58 in19695.2 m206 in
- 1970s19703.3 m131 in19713.9 m153 in19728.4 m329 in19735.0 m196 in19745.4 m213 in19754.8 m190 in19764.9 m194 in19777.7 m302 in19788.5 m335 in19795.1 m200 in
- 1980s19805.0 m198 in19813.9 m152 in198213.6 m533 in19836.4 m252 in19849.2 m363 in19854.2 m167 in19865.5 m215 in19879.7 m383 in19884.3 m169 in19896.2 m245 in
- 1990s19903.8 m148 in19916.3 m247 in19925.4 m213 in19934.5 m178 in19945.1 m199 in19956.2 m245 in19962.9 m116 in19979.7 m381 in19981.7 m68 in19995.8 m227 in
- 2000s20008.5 m334 in20016.0 m235 in20027.5 m296 in20033.7 m144 in20044.6 m182 in20058.4 m329 in20067.7 m302 in20075.0 m197 in20085.1 m202 in20095.9 m233 in
- 2010s20104.1 m161 in20114.8 m189 in20124.0 m156 in20133.5 m136 in20145.1 m199 in20156.7 m264 in20164.1 m162 in20174.3 m171 in20184.2 m165 in20192.7 m105 in
- 2020s20204.9 m194 in20213.2 m127 in20223.8 m149 in20237.1 m281 in20245.6 m219 in20253.7 m144 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