Cerro Catedral, 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 1% of 736 resorts
+0.4°C+0.8°F
The trend: from -5°C23°F to -4°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−1%
The trend: from 4.4 m174 in to 4.4 m173 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 13 to 14. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 139 to 128. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−8 days
The trend: from 130 to 122. 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−2%
Then
4.5 m177 in
Now
4.4 m174 in
- Snowfall in the village−2%
Then
4.5 m178 in
Now
4.4 m174 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
14
Now
14
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
136
Now
131
- Days with a base in the village−5 days
Then
128
Now
124
- Average temperature at the summit+0.3°C+0.6°F
Then
-5°C23°F
Now
-4°C24°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
- 1950s19504.7 m185 in19514.2 m166 in19523.7 m145 in19536.0 m234 in19545.2 m206 in19553.2 m126 in19565.0 m198 in19574.5 m177 in19584.6 m182 in19594.8 m190 in
- 1960s19604.9 m194 in19614.8 m190 in19622.5 m98 in19633.4 m133 in19644.6 m180 in19654.0 m156 in19664.4 m174 in19674.8 m188 in19682.7 m107 in19695.9 m230 in
- 1970s19704.7 m186 in19716.1 m239 in19723.9 m154 in19734.4 m174 in19743.5 m139 in19755.6 m220 in19763.7 m146 in19775.3 m207 in19784.8 m187 in19795.3 m210 in
- 1980s19805.0 m196 in19813.6 m141 in19825.3 m209 in19835.5 m215 in19844.7 m185 in19852.5 m96 in19863.0 m119 in19873.0 m120 in19884.3 m168 in19893.7 m144 in
- 1990s19903.1 m120 in19914.0 m158 in19925.0 m198 in19934.3 m168 in19944.4 m171 in19956.0 m236 in19962.3 m92 in19973.4 m135 in19982.8 m109 in19994.3 m169 in
- 2000s20006.4 m253 in20015.0 m196 in20024.8 m189 in20034.9 m192 in20044.7 m184 in20054.1 m161 in20065.6 m220 in20075.4 m213 in20084.5 m178 in20094.2 m164 in
- 2010s20104.7 m186 in20114.8 m189 in20123.8 m151 in20134.3 m169 in20144.3 m168 in20154.7 m184 in20163.0 m116 in20175.8 m229 in20184.7 m186 in20195.0 m195 in
- 2020s20205.4 m212 in20213.0 m117 in20225.4 m211 in20235.7 m224 in20243.9 m155 in20252.1 m83 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