SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Frabosa Soprana, Italy. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Frabosa Soprana
Painting of Frabosa Soprana
Average winter
2.5 m98 in
Snowiest winter
6.6 m261 in
1971/72
Leanest winter
44 cm17 in
2006/07
Powder days a winter
8

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 82% of 736 resorts

+2.7°C+4.9°F

The trend: from -2°C28°F to 0°C33°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-4°25°-2°28°0°32°2°36°

Snowfall at the summit

−37%

The trend: from 3.1 m120 in to 1.9 m75 in. Point at a winter to read it.

0 cm0 in2.0 m79 in4.0 m157 in6.0 m236 in

Powder days at the summit

−3 days

The trend: from 10 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.

0510152025

Days with a base at the summit

−50 days

The trend: from 83 to 33. Point at a winter to read it.

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Days with a base in the village

−49 days

The trend: from 81 to 31. Point at a winter to read it.

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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−31%

Then

3.1 m121 in

Now

2.1 m83 in

Snowfall in the village−35%

Then

1.8 m71 in

Now

1.2 m46 in

Powder days at the summit−3 days

Then

10

Now

7

Days with a base at the summit−38 days

Then

80

Now

42

Days with a base in the village−38 days

Then

78

Now

40

Average temperature at the summit+1.6°C+2.9°F

Then

-2°C29°F

Now

0°C32°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
57 cm22 in
21 February 2004
Snowiest winter
6.6 m261 in
1971/72
Leanest winter
44 cm17 in
2006/07
Deepest snow on the ground
244 cm96 in
20 February 1972
Coldest night at the summit
-26°C-15°F
12 February 1956
Strongest gust at the summit
93 km/h58 mph
28 March 1995

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