Charlotte Pass, Australia. 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 2% of 736 resorts
+0.7°C+1.2°F
The trend: from 0°C32°F to 1°C33°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−17%
The trend: from 90 cm35 in to 75 cm30 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 17 to 5. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 25 to 18. 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−14%
Then
85.233 cm34 in
Now
73.433 cm29 in
- Snowfall in the village−11%
Then
77.667 cm31 in
Now
69.5 cm27 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−9 days
Then
14
Now
5
- Average temperature at the summit+0.5°C+0.8°F
Then
0°C32°F
Now
0°C33°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
- 1950s195033 cm13 in19511.0 m41 in195247 cm19 in19531.0 m40 in195441 cm16 in195597 cm38 in19561.5 m61 in195757 cm22 in195881 cm32 in195991 cm36 in
- 1960s196090 cm35 in196166 cm26 in196258 cm23 in196351 cm20 in19641.2 m48 in196560 cm24 in19661.0 m40 in196752 cm20 in19681.4 m56 in196978 cm31 in
- 1970s19701.2 m46 in197184 cm33 in19721.1 m44 in197347 cm19 in19741.3 m50 in197574 cm29 in197680 cm31 in19771.2 m49 in19781.0 m41 in197965 cm26 in
- 1980s198090 cm35 in19811.8 m71 in198251 cm20 in198375 cm30 in19841.0 m39 in198584 cm33 in198680 cm31 in198780 cm31 in198838 cm15 in198991 cm36 in
- 1990s19901.6 m63 in19911.5 m59 in19921.2 m46 in199344 cm17 in199457 cm22 in199595 cm37 in199692 cm36 in199741 cm16 in19981.1 m44 in199948 cm19 in
- 2000s200083 cm33 in200187 cm34 in200258 cm23 in200398 cm39 in200487 cm34 in200588 cm35 in200621 cm8 in200773 cm29 in200870 cm28 in200973 cm29 in
- 2010s201075 cm30 in201171 cm28 in201283 cm33 in201354 cm21 in201472 cm28 in201566 cm26 in201697 cm38 in201799 cm39 in201883 cm33 in201989 cm35 in
- 2020s202064 cm25 in20211.0 m39 in202266 cm26 in202335 cm14 in202444 cm17 in202575 cm30 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