Høgevarde, Norway. 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.
Loading the daily snowfall…
Climate change
Average winter temperature at the summit
Faster warming than 96% of 736 resorts
+3.3°C+5.9°F
The trend: from -11°C13°F to -7°C19°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+8%
The trend: from 2.3 m90 in to 2.5 m97 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 3 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−14 days
The trend: from 166 to 152. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 53 to 53. 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+3%
Then
2.4 m93 in
Now
2.4 m95 in
- Snowfall in the village−18%
Then
1.4 m54 in
Now
1.1 m45 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
3
Now
4
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
163
Now
155
- Average temperature at the summit+2.1°C+3.7°F
Then
-10°C14°F
Now
-8°C18°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
- 1950s1950/513.9 m154 in1951/521.8 m72 in1952/531.4 m54 in1953/542.2 m88 in1954/552.6 m103 in1955/561.5 m61 in1956/571.6 m64 in1957/581.6 m61 in1958/591.9 m75 in1959/603.8 m148 in
- 1960s1960/612.6 m104 in1961/622.6 m102 in1962/631.5 m57 in1963/641.2 m46 in1964/652.1 m83 in1965/662.5 m98 in1966/673.5 m139 in1967/682.2 m87 in1968/692.7 m106 in1969/702.5 m98 in
- 1970s1970/713.0 m116 in1971/723.0 m117 in1972/731.5 m60 in1973/742.6 m100 in1974/752.7 m105 in1975/761.5 m58 in1976/773.4 m132 in1977/783.2 m126 in1978/792.3 m91 in1979/802.1 m82 in
- 1980s1980/811.3 m52 in1981/822.3 m92 in1982/832.2 m87 in1983/841.9 m76 in1984/853.0 m119 in1985/862.3 m90 in1986/872.7 m107 in1987/883.9 m153 in1988/892.0 m77 in1989/902.3 m91 in
- 1990s1990/912.1 m83 in1991/922.0 m80 in1992/932.1 m82 in1993/943.0 m116 in1994/953.4 m132 in1995/961.1 m43 in1996/971.6 m64 in1997/983.0 m118 in1998/992.6 m104 in1999/001.8 m72 in
- 2000s2000/013.9 m155 in2001/021.9 m74 in2002/032.0 m80 in2003/042.3 m90 in2004/051.4 m57 in2005/062.4 m93 in2006/072.2 m87 in2007/083.8 m148 in2008/092.6 m101 in2009/102.5 m99 in
- 2010s2010/111.4 m56 in2011/122.1 m82 in2012/131.7 m68 in2013/144.0 m157 in2014/152.4 m96 in2015/162.3 m89 in2016/172.1 m81 in2017/182.7 m106 in2018/192.4 m94 in2019/203.0 m117 in
- 2020s2020/212.9 m116 in2021/221.4 m55 in2022/233.6 m140 in2023/243.2 m126 in2024/251.5 m57 in2025/262.1 m81 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