76 winters, day by day
Crested Butte Mountain Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Crested Butte Mountain Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
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 34% of 736 resorts
+1.9°C+3.4°F
The trend: from -11°C12°F to -9°C16°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−14%
The trend: from 2.9 m116 in to 2.5 m99 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 3 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 153 to 146. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 71 to 62. 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 1950/51–1979/80Now 1996/97–2025/26
- Snowfall at the summit−10%
Then
2.8 m111 in
Now
2.5 m100 in
- Snowfall in the village−13%
Then
2.6 m101 in
Now
2.2 m87 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−2 days
Then
149
Now
148
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F
Then
-11°C13°F
Now
-9°C15°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
- 1950s1950/513.2 m124 in1951/524.0 m159 in1952/532.6 m103 in1953/542.1 m83 in1954/552.4 m93 in1955/563.3 m128 in1956/573.7 m147 in1957/583.0 m119 in1958/592.7 m107 in1959/602.6 m102 in
- 1960s1960/612.5 m96 in1961/623.1 m123 in1962/632.3 m91 in1963/642.5 m98 in1964/653.8 m148 in1965/662.0 m79 in1966/672.8 m111 in1967/682.9 m115 in1968/692.8 m112 in1969/702.5 m98 in
- 1970s1970/712.4 m96 in1971/722.2 m85 in1972/732.8 m109 in1973/743.0 m118 in1974/753.1 m123 in1975/762.5 m100 in1976/771.5 m59 in1977/783.4 m133 in1978/793.3 m128 in1979/803.7 m146 in
- 1980s1980/811.7 m66 in1981/823.4 m133 in1982/832.9 m114 in1983/844.4 m173 in1984/853.3 m130 in1985/863.5 m138 in1986/872.4 m94 in1987/882.4 m96 in1988/893.1 m122 in1989/902.4 m95 in
- 1990s1990/912.9 m113 in1991/922.0 m80 in1992/933.5 m138 in1993/942.4 m93 in1994/953.1 m123 in1995/963.2 m127 in1996/973.1 m124 in1997/982.5 m99 in1998/992.4 m96 in1999/002.2 m86 in
- 2000s2000/012.2 m85 in2001/021.7 m67 in2002/032.3 m90 in2003/042.8 m110 in2004/052.7 m108 in2005/062.7 m107 in2006/072.1 m81 in2007/083.1 m123 in2008/093.1 m122 in2009/102.5 m98 in
- 2010s2010/113.4 m135 in2011/121.6 m64 in2012/132.2 m86 in2013/142.9 m115 in2014/152.2 m85 in2015/162.8 m110 in2016/173.5 m138 in2017/182.1 m84 in2018/193.3 m130 in2019/202.2 m88 in
- 2020s2020/212.0 m79 in2021/222.6 m102 in2022/233.4 m133 in2023/242.7 m106 in2024/252.1 m83 in2025/261.9 m73 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