SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Cieńków, Poland. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Cieńków
Painting of Cieńków
Average winter
1.4 m56 in
Snowiest winter
2.5 m96 in
1951/52
Leanest winter
47 cm19 in
2013/14
Powder days a winter
1

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 91% of 736 resorts

+3.0°C+5.5°F

The trend: from -2°C28°F to 1°C34°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-4°25°-2°28°0°32°2°36°

Snowfall at the summit

−24%

The trend: from 1.6 m63 in to 1.2 m48 in. Point at a winter to read it.

50 cm20 in1.0 m39 in1.5 m59 in2.0 m79 in2.5 m98 in

Powder days at the summit

−1 day

The trend: from 1 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.

01234

Days with a base at the summit

−47 days

The trend: from 71 to 24. Point at a winter to read it.

050100150

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−9 days

The trend: from 46 to 37. Point at a winter to read it.

204060

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−15%

Then

1.5 m60 in

Now

1.3 m51 in

Snowfall in the village−20%

Then

1.1 m43 in

Now

87.333 cm34 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

1

Now

1

Days with a base at the summit−26 days

Then

59

Now

33

Average temperature at the summit+1.8°C+3.2°F

Then

-1°C30°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

Most snow in a day
20 cm8 in
3 April 1970
Snowiest winter
2.5 m96 in
1951/52
Leanest winter
47 cm19 in
2013/14
Deepest snow on the ground
118 cm46 in
29 March 1952
Coldest night at the summit
-32°C-26°F
1 February 1956
Strongest gust at the summit
118 km/h73 mph
19 January 2007

All winters

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