76 winters, day by day
Hudson Bay Mountain, Canada. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Hudson Bay Mountain, Canada. 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 81% of 736 resorts
+2.7°C+4.9°F
The trend: from -13°C8°F to -10°C13°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
±0%
The trend: from 3.5 m139 in to 3.5 m138 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 5 to 5. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 174 to 172. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 83 to 80. 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−1%
Then
3.5 m139 in
Now
3.5 m138 in
- Snowfall in the village−1%
Then
3.4 m135 in
Now
3.4 m133 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
6
Now
5
- Days with a base at the summit−1 day
Then
173
Now
172
- Average temperature at the summit+1.8°C+3.2°F
Then
-13°C9°F
Now
-11°C12°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 m104 in1951/523.4 m132 in1952/533.5 m137 in1953/544.7 m185 in1954/553.8 m149 in1955/562.6 m104 in1956/573.9 m152 in1957/583.8 m151 in1958/593.5 m138 in1959/604.3 m168 in
- 1960s1960/613.1 m124 in1961/623.5 m139 in1962/633.3 m131 in1963/644.5 m177 in1964/653.4 m133 in1965/663.4 m133 in1966/673.7 m146 in1967/683.6 m141 in1968/692.7 m105 in1969/703.6 m141 in
- 1970s1970/713.3 m129 in1971/724.3 m171 in1972/733.9 m152 in1973/743.3 m131 in1974/753.4 m133 in1975/765.0 m197 in1976/773.5 m138 in1977/782.7 m106 in1978/793.4 m132 in1979/802.5 m99 in
- 1980s1980/813.7 m147 in1981/823.7 m144 in1982/832.2 m87 in1983/842.9 m112 in1984/853.8 m148 in1985/862.8 m111 in1986/873.7 m146 in1987/883.2 m125 in1988/893.6 m141 in1989/904.1 m163 in
- 1990s1990/913.6 m142 in1991/924.6 m183 in1992/932.9 m113 in1993/944.0 m158 in1994/953.2 m124 in1995/964.2 m165 in1996/974.0 m156 in1997/983.0 m118 in1998/993.3 m130 in1999/003.0 m119 in
- 2000s2000/012.8 m112 in2001/024.1 m160 in2002/033.1 m121 in2003/042.6 m104 in2004/054.2 m165 in2005/062.8 m111 in2006/075.2 m205 in2007/083.4 m132 in2008/093.9 m152 in2009/102.5 m99 in
- 2010s2010/113.8 m148 in2011/124.9 m194 in2012/132.7 m107 in2013/143.6 m143 in2014/154.1 m160 in2015/162.6 m104 in2016/173.2 m126 in2017/183.6 m141 in2018/193.1 m122 in2019/203.4 m134 in
- 2020s2020/214.3 m170 in2021/223.9 m155 in2022/233.5 m137 in2023/243.0 m118 in2024/252.8 m111 in2025/264.7 m184 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