Corralco, 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 1% of 736 resorts
+0.5°C+1.0°F
The trend: from -5°C22°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−7%
The trend: from 5.7 m225 in to 5.3 m209 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 21 to 20. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 128 to 121. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 62 to 56. 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−7%
Then
5.8 m229 in
Now
5.4 m214 in
- Snowfall in the village−8%
Then
5.9 m231 in
Now
5.4 m214 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
22
Now
21
- Days with a base at the summit−7 days
Then
130
Now
123
- Average temperature at the summit+0.4°C+0.8°F
Then
-5°C23°F
Now
-5°C23°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
- 1950s19507.4 m290 in19515.4 m213 in19524.3 m168 in19535.7 m224 in19547.3 m289 in19554.5 m176 in19566.3 m250 in19577.0 m275 in19584.5 m179 in19595.5 m217 in
- 1960s19605.1 m201 in19616.9 m270 in19624.1 m162 in19635.6 m219 in19647.5 m296 in19655.6 m220 in19666.3 m247 in19675.8 m230 in19682.9 m116 in19696.1 m242 in
- 1970s19705.6 m220 in19715.6 m219 in19725.8 m228 in19736.6 m258 in19745.4 m211 in19756.7 m263 in19765.7 m222 in19778.7 m342 in19785.6 m219 in19795.5 m215 in
- 1980s19804.9 m193 in19813.4 m132 in19827.4 m292 in19835.7 m224 in19846.6 m260 in19852.6 m104 in19864.0 m157 in19873.7 m144 in19886.2 m243 in19895.6 m222 in
- 1990s19903.3 m129 in19914.2 m166 in19926.0 m235 in19934.6 m183 in19945.4 m211 in19958.4 m332 in19963.0 m116 in19975.1 m202 in19983.0 m117 in19996.1 m239 in
- 2000s20007.2 m283 in20015.6 m220 in20026.2 m244 in20034.6 m180 in20045.5 m216 in20055.5 m218 in20066.2 m244 in20076.4 m252 in20086.0 m237 in20095.6 m221 in
- 2010s20106.3 m249 in20116.4 m250 in20123.3 m128 in20134.4 m174 in20146.0 m237 in20156.0 m238 in20163.0 m119 in20177.7 m302 in20185.4 m211 in20196.3 m248 in
- 2020s20206.8 m269 in20214.2 m164 in20226.4 m251 in20235.7 m224 in20245.4 m211 in20253.7 m146 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