Falls Creek, Australia. 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 4% of 736 resorts
+0.9°C+1.6°F
The trend: from 1°C33°F to 2°C35°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−21%
The trend: from 44 cm17 in to 35 cm14 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 0 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 6 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 12 to 9. 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−19%
Then
40.867 cm16 in
Now
32.967 cm13 in
- Snowfall in the village−22%
Then
42.9 cm17 in
Now
33.467 cm13 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
4
Now
0
- Average temperature at the summit+0.6°C+1.1°F
Then
1°C34°F
Now
2°C35°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
- 1950s195011 cm4 in195151 cm20 in195219 cm7 in195355 cm22 in195411 cm4 in195554 cm21 in195685 cm33 in195723 cm9 in195836 cm14 in195921 cm8 in
- 1960s196050 cm20 in196116 cm6 in196225 cm10 in196322 cm9 in196450 cm20 in196523 cm9 in196658 cm23 in196712 cm5 in196863 cm25 in196939 cm15 in
- 1970s197060 cm24 in197154 cm21 in197273 cm29 in197320 cm8 in197454 cm21 in197537 cm15 in197633 cm13 in197782 cm32 in197854 cm21 in197935 cm14 in
- 1980s198046 cm18 in19811.3 m52 in198222 cm9 in198343 cm17 in198445 cm18 in198544 cm17 in198637 cm15 in198728 cm11 in198810 cm4 in198966 cm26 in
- 1990s199098 cm39 in199152 cm20 in199262 cm24 in199313 cm5 in199431 cm12 in199544 cm17 in199633 cm13 in199720 cm8 in199847 cm19 in199919 cm7 in
- 2000s200036 cm14 in200143 cm17 in200219 cm7 in200357 cm22 in200441 cm16 in200539 cm15 in20064 cm2 in200726 cm10 in200834 cm13 in200922 cm9 in
- 2010s201046 cm18 in201127 cm11 in201236 cm14 in201328 cm11 in201439 cm15 in201529 cm11 in201651 cm20 in201747 cm19 in201848 cm19 in201937 cm15 in
- 2020s202031 cm12 in202134 cm13 in202224 cm9 in202321 cm8 in202418 cm7 in202533 cm13 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