76 winters, day by day
Hunter Mountain, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Hunter Mountain, United States. 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 40% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.6°F
The trend: from -4°C24°F to -2°C28°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−25%
The trend: from 1.8 m69 in to 1.3 m52 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 4 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−35 days
The trend: from 57 to 22. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 34 to 25. 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−16%
Then
1.7 m67 in
Now
1.4 m56 in
- Snowfall in the village−21%
Then
1.1 m45 in
Now
89.767 cm35 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
4
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−26 days
Then
54
Now
28
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.4°F
Then
-4°C25°F
Now
-3°C27°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
- 1950s1950/511.7 m65 in1951/521.9 m76 in1952/531.5 m57 in1953/541.1 m43 in1954/551.6 m63 in1955/562.3 m89 in1956/571.7 m68 in1957/582.4 m96 in1958/591.4 m53 in1959/601.8 m69 in
- 1960s1960/612.0 m78 in1961/621.6 m63 in1962/631.9 m73 in1963/641.4 m57 in1964/651.5 m57 in1965/661.4 m56 in1966/671.9 m76 in1967/681.4 m54 in1968/691.6 m62 in1969/702.2 m87 in
- 1970s1970/712.3 m89 in1971/722.2 m88 in1972/731.7 m68 in1973/741.7 m65 in1974/751.4 m57 in1975/761.4 m55 in1976/771.7 m65 in1977/782.1 m84 in1978/791.7 m66 in1979/8083 cm33 in
- 1980s1980/8189 cm35 in1981/821.6 m61 in1982/831.6 m62 in1983/841.7 m67 in1984/851.1 m43 in1985/861.4 m56 in1986/871.9 m73 in1987/881.4 m56 in1988/8974 cm29 in1989/901.3 m51 in
- 1990s1990/9191 cm36 in1991/9268 cm27 in1992/932.4 m93 in1993/942.1 m82 in1994/9586 cm34 in1995/961.9 m75 in1996/972.0 m79 in1997/981.7 m68 in1998/991.1 m43 in1999/001.2 m46 in
- 2000s2000/011.9 m75 in2001/0284 cm33 in2002/032.2 m85 in2003/041.4 m54 in2004/051.5 m59 in2005/061.0 m40 in2006/071.5 m61 in2007/081.5 m60 in2008/091.2 m48 in2009/102.0 m78 in
- 2010s2010/111.8 m72 in2011/1286 cm34 in2012/131.4 m54 in2013/141.6 m63 in2014/151.6 m64 in2015/1635 cm14 in2016/171.7 m66 in2017/181.5 m60 in2018/191.7 m65 in2019/201.5 m57 in
- 2020s2020/211.2 m49 in2021/221.3 m49 in2022/231.7 m65 in2023/241.3 m52 in2024/251.2 m48 in2025/261.2 m48 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