76 winters, day by day
Forêt Blanche : Vars/Risoul, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Forêt Blanche : Vars/Risoul, France. 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 35% of 736 resorts
+1.9°C+3.5°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−9%
The trend: from 3.8 m148 in to 3.4 m134 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 11 to 10. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 162 to 155. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−4 days
The trend: from 155 to 150. 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−8%
Then
3.8 m149 in
Now
3.5 m137 in
- Snowfall in the village−21%
Then
2.6 m101 in
Now
2.0 m80 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
11
Now
10
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
164
Now
159
- Days with a base in the village−4 days
Then
157
Now
153
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.0°F
Then
-10°C15°F
Now
-8°C17°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
- 1950s1950/514.6 m181 in1951/523.1 m123 in1952/532.2 m87 in1953/542.4 m93 in1954/554.1 m160 in1955/563.7 m145 in1956/572.8 m109 in1957/583.6 m142 in1958/594.6 m180 in1959/605.3 m209 in
- 1960s1960/613.2 m125 in1961/624.8 m190 in1962/634.8 m190 in1963/643.7 m145 in1964/652.0 m77 in1965/664.3 m168 in1966/672.7 m107 in1967/682.9 m112 in1968/694.2 m165 in1969/703.9 m155 in
- 1970s1970/714.5 m178 in1971/724.7 m183 in1972/732.7 m106 in1973/744.4 m171 in1974/753.1 m123 in1975/763.4 m132 in1976/775.3 m209 in1977/785.2 m204 in1978/794.4 m174 in1979/803.2 m126 in
- 1980s1980/813.2 m127 in1981/823.4 m135 in1982/834.5 m178 in1983/843.1 m123 in1984/853.5 m138 in1985/864.8 m190 in1986/872.8 m108 in1987/883.5 m136 in1988/892.9 m113 in1989/902.8 m110 in
- 1990s1990/913.3 m128 in1991/922.3 m91 in1992/933.0 m116 in1993/943.4 m135 in1994/953.5 m137 in1995/964.0 m159 in1996/974.3 m168 in1997/983.7 m146 in1998/992.8 m111 in1999/003.2 m127 in
- 2000s2000/015.3 m208 in2001/022.1 m84 in2002/033.9 m152 in2003/043.6 m141 in2004/052.1 m82 in2005/062.7 m105 in2006/071.9 m76 in2007/083.4 m132 in2008/095.0 m196 in2009/104.2 m164 in
- 2010s2010/113.4 m135 in2011/123.5 m137 in2012/134.6 m179 in2013/144.3 m169 in2014/153.9 m153 in2015/162.8 m112 in2016/173.7 m146 in2017/185.1 m200 in2018/192.9 m114 in2019/203.8 m150 in
- 2020s2020/212.8 m112 in2021/222.2 m86 in2022/232.6 m101 in2023/244.7 m187 in2024/253.5 m136 in2025/263.0 m117 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