SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Didveli, Georgia. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Didveli
Average winter
2.3 m89 in
Snowiest winter
3.2 m128 in
Leanest winter
1.3 m50 in
Powder days a winter
2

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 7% of 736 resorts

+1.1°C+1.9°F

The trend: from -9°C16°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-10°14°-8°18°-6°21°

Snowfall at the summit

−1%

The trend: from 2.3 m89 in to 2.3 m89 in. Point at a winter to read it.

1.5 m59 in2.0 m79 in2.5 m98 in3.0 m118 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 2 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.

02468

Days with a base at the summit

−5 days

The trend: from 119 to 114. Point at a winter to read it.

50100150

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−3 days

The trend: from 56 to 53. Point at a winter to read it.

406080

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−1%

Then

2.3 m89 in

Now

2.2 m88 in

Snowfall in the village−4%

Then

2.0 m79 in

Now

1.9 m76 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

2

Now

2

Days with a base at the summit−4 days

Then

117

Now

112

Average temperature at the summit+0.6°C+1.1°F

Then

-9°C17°F

Now

-8°C18°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
39 cm15 in
Snowiest winter
3.2 m128 in
Leanest winter
1.3 m50 in
Deepest snow on the ground
146 cm57 in
Coldest night at the summit
-34°C-29°F
Strongest gust at the summit
107 km/h66 mph

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