76 winters, day by day
Crystal Mountain, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Crystal Mountain, 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 9% of 736 resorts
+1.2°C+2.2°F
The trend: from -6°C21°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−29%
The trend: from 6.8 m266 in to 4.8 m190 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 20 to 13. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 166 to 155. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 97 to 85. 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−16%
Then
6.6 m259 in
Now
5.5 m216 in
- Snowfall in the village−19%
Then
4.4 m172 in
Now
3.5 m139 in
- Powder days at the summit−3 days
Then
19
Now
16
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
163
Now
157
- Average temperature at the summit+0.8°C+1.4°F
Then
-6°C21°F
Now
-5°C22°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
- 1950s1950/516.6 m260 in1951/525.8 m230 in1952/537.0 m277 in1953/548.7 m341 in1954/557.2 m284 in1955/569.2 m361 in1956/575.7 m223 in1957/586.3 m249 in1958/596.8 m268 in1959/605.7 m224 in
- 1960s1960/617.4 m293 in1961/625.6 m219 in1962/634.5 m178 in1963/648.3 m325 in1964/656.5 m257 in1965/666.4 m252 in1966/677.1 m280 in1967/684.9 m194 in1968/696.8 m269 in1969/705.7 m223 in
- 1970s1970/719.3 m367 in1971/7210.3 m405 in1972/733.9 m154 in1973/748.9 m350 in1974/757.1 m278 in1975/767.3 m288 in1976/772.8 m110 in1977/785.0 m198 in1978/795.2 m206 in1979/804.9 m193 in
- 1980s1980/813.4 m135 in1981/826.9 m271 in1982/835.6 m219 in1983/845.4 m211 in1984/855.3 m208 in1985/863.9 m154 in1986/874.6 m183 in1987/885.1 m200 in1988/895.8 m230 in1989/905.6 m220 in
- 1990s1990/915.6 m219 in1991/923.6 m141 in1992/934.0 m159 in1993/944.1 m161 in1994/955.1 m201 in1995/964.6 m183 in1996/977.7 m303 in1997/984.8 m189 in1998/998.4 m330 in1999/005.9 m234 in
- 2000s2000/013.7 m146 in2001/026.3 m250 in2002/034.5 m178 in2003/045.0 m196 in2004/052.7 m105 in2005/066.5 m254 in2006/075.9 m231 in2007/086.8 m267 in2008/095.9 m232 in2009/104.6 m183 in
- 2010s2010/116.6 m259 in2011/127.1 m278 in2012/135.7 m223 in2013/146.0 m236 in2014/152.6 m100 in2015/165.6 m221 in2016/175.9 m231 in2017/186.2 m243 in2018/194.5 m178 in2019/205.5 m215 in
- 2020s2020/216.3 m247 in2021/225.5 m215 in2022/235.0 m195 in2023/244.6 m180 in2024/254.8 m189 in2025/264.2 m167 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