76 winters, day by day
Cypress Mountain, Canada. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Cypress Mountain, Canada. 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 16% of 736 resorts
+1.5°C+2.7°F
The trend: from -5°C24°F to -3°C27°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−39%
The trend: from 5.9 m232 in to 3.6 m141 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 21 to 10. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−71 days
The trend: from 89 to 17. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−16 days
The trend: from 76 to 60. 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−23%
Then
5.6 m219 in
Now
4.3 m169 in
- Snowfall in the village−34%
Then
4.5 m176 in
Now
2.9 m116 in
- Powder days at the summit−7 days
Then
20
Now
13
- Days with a base at the summit−40 days
Then
78
Now
37
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.8°F
Then
-4°C24°F
Now
-3°C26°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
- 1950s1950/515.4 m213 in1951/526.3 m246 in1952/536.3 m248 in1953/546.7 m264 in1954/556.0 m237 in1955/568.2 m323 in1956/574.2 m165 in1957/584.7 m186 in1958/594.8 m189 in1959/604.9 m193 in
- 1960s1960/615.4 m211 in1961/624.4 m172 in1962/633.2 m126 in1963/648.0 m314 in1964/655.7 m224 in1965/666.8 m266 in1966/676.6 m260 in1967/686.5 m256 in1968/697.5 m293 in1969/703.4 m132 in
- 1970s1970/718.1 m320 in1971/727.4 m292 in1972/734.0 m157 in1973/747.0 m275 in1974/755.4 m211 in1975/766.7 m264 in1976/772.3 m89 in1977/782.9 m113 in1978/794.7 m183 in1979/804.1 m161 in
- 1980s1980/812.5 m98 in1981/826.2 m245 in1982/834.0 m156 in1983/843.8 m150 in1984/854.6 m181 in1985/862.6 m104 in1986/873.5 m139 in1987/884.8 m187 in1988/894.8 m188 in1989/904.9 m192 in
- 1990s1990/914.9 m192 in1991/923.1 m123 in1992/933.0 m120 in1993/944.0 m159 in1994/954.4 m173 in1995/962.7 m105 in1996/975.8 m227 in1997/983.9 m155 in1998/998.8 m348 in1999/004.8 m188 in
- 2000s2000/013.0 m118 in2001/025.2 m204 in2002/032.7 m107 in2003/044.3 m169 in2004/052.7 m106 in2005/064.7 m185 in2006/076.0 m238 in2007/085.5 m217 in2008/094.1 m163 in2009/103.8 m150 in
- 2010s2010/116.3 m249 in2011/126.3 m248 in2012/134.6 m180 in2013/143.1 m122 in2014/151.0 m41 in2015/163.6 m141 in2016/174.9 m193 in2017/185.0 m195 in2018/192.9 m115 in2019/203.7 m146 in
- 2020s2020/214.5 m175 in2021/224.9 m193 in2022/234.2 m164 in2023/242.6 m104 in2024/252.9 m115 in2025/262.8 m110 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