76 winters, day by day
Glenshee Ski Center, United Kingdom. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Glenshee Ski Center, United Kingdom. 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 -3°C26°F to -1°C30°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−5%
The trend: from 1.9 m76 in to 1.9 m73 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 2 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−31 days
The trend: from 54 to 23. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 52 to 47. 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
1.9 m75 in
Now
1.8 m69 in
- Snowfall in the village−7%
Then
1.9 m76 in
Now
1.8 m70 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
2
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−27 days
Then
48
Now
21
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-3°C27°F
Now
-2°C29°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
- 1950s1950/512.6 m100 in1951/521.2 m49 in1952/531.5 m59 in1953/541.7 m66 in1954/551.7 m69 in1955/561.4 m57 in1956/571.3 m52 in1957/582.3 m92 in1958/5994 cm37 in1959/602.2 m87 in
- 1960s1960/611.3 m51 in1961/621.7 m67 in1962/631.7 m67 in1963/641.4 m53 in1964/651.4 m54 in1965/662.3 m91 in1966/672.6 m103 in1967/681.6 m64 in1968/692.2 m88 in1969/702.5 m98 in
- 1970s1970/711.6 m63 in1971/722.4 m93 in1972/731.6 m62 in1973/742.2 m87 in1974/752.0 m80 in1975/761.9 m73 in1976/772.4 m93 in1977/782.8 m109 in1978/792.7 m105 in1979/802.1 m82 in
- 1980s1980/812.0 m78 in1981/822.3 m92 in1982/832.4 m96 in1983/842.8 m109 in1984/851.9 m75 in1985/862.4 m93 in1986/872.4 m95 in1987/882.1 m84 in1988/891.5 m60 in1989/901.7 m65 in
- 1990s1990/911.7 m67 in1991/921.6 m65 in1992/931.9 m74 in1993/943.0 m118 in1994/952.1 m83 in1995/962.3 m91 in1996/971.6 m61 in1997/982.0 m78 in1998/992.0 m78 in1999/002.3 m92 in
- 2000s2000/012.0 m78 in2001/021.7 m67 in2002/0378 cm31 in2003/041.3 m52 in2004/051.3 m52 in2005/061.5 m60 in2006/071.3 m50 in2007/082.3 m92 in2008/091.9 m75 in2009/102.0 m79 in
- 2010s2010/111.8 m71 in2011/121.5 m59 in2012/132.4 m94 in2013/142.8 m111 in2014/151.6 m62 in2015/162.6 m103 in2016/171.2 m47 in2017/182.1 m83 in2018/191.4 m53 in2019/201.3 m52 in
- 2020s2020/212.0 m78 in2021/221.9 m73 in2022/231.3 m52 in2023/241.7 m65 in2024/251.2 m48 in2025/262.2 m85 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