76 winters, day by day
Estación Esquí Antillanca, Chile. Every ski winter from 1950 to 2025.
Estación Esquí Antillanca, 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 -1°C30°F to -1°C31°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−10%
The trend: from 3.1 m123 in to 2.8 m111 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 7 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−19 days
The trend: from 76 to 57. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−4 days
The trend: from 58 to 54. 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−10%
Then
3.2 m126 in
Now
2.9 m113 in
- Snowfall in the village−11%
Then
1.4 m55 in
Now
1.2 m49 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
7
Now
6
- Days with a base at the summit−19 days
Then
79
Now
59
- Average temperature at the summit+0.4°C+0.8°F
Then
-1°C30°F
Now
-1°C30°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
- 1950s19503.8 m150 in19512.0 m77 in19522.4 m93 in19533.5 m138 in19544.4 m174 in19552.6 m104 in19563.1 m120 in19573.5 m139 in19582.4 m94 in19593.8 m148 in
- 1960s19603.4 m135 in19614.1 m160 in19621.9 m74 in19632.2 m86 in19643.6 m140 in19652.6 m101 in19663.2 m125 in19674.5 m176 in19681.5 m58 in19693.9 m154 in
- 1970s19703.6 m143 in19714.5 m178 in19722.6 m102 in19733.2 m124 in19743.4 m132 in19753.9 m153 in19762.9 m113 in19774.2 m165 in19783.0 m119 in19792.8 m108 in
- 1980s19802.6 m103 in19812.2 m85 in19823.2 m127 in19834.1 m161 in19843.2 m125 in19851.0 m40 in19861.8 m69 in19871.7 m68 in19883.0 m117 in19892.7 m106 in
- 1990s19901.5 m61 in19912.7 m108 in19923.6 m140 in19932.5 m100 in19942.8 m110 in19955.1 m199 in19961.7 m65 in19972.5 m100 in19981.8 m71 in19992.5 m98 in
- 2000s20003.7 m144 in20012.8 m112 in20023.1 m120 in20032.5 m98 in20042.3 m92 in20052.7 m104 in20063.4 m132 in20075.0 m196 in20082.9 m115 in20092.9 m114 in
- 2010s20103.3 m129 in20113.3 m131 in20122.5 m100 in20132.3 m92 in20142.5 m100 in20153.0 m118 in20161.7 m67 in20174.3 m169 in20182.8 m109 in20193.2 m126 in
- 2020s20204.3 m168 in20212.3 m89 in20223.9 m152 in20233.2 m127 in20242.5 m96 in20251.6 m64 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