Lagunillas, Chile. Every ski winter from 1950 to 2025.
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 6% of 736 resorts
+1.0°C+1.8°F
The trend: from -2°C28°F to -1°C30°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−5%
The trend: from 3.0 m117 in to 2.8 m111 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 9 to 9. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 114 to 106. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 37 to 34. 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 1950–1979Now 1996–2025
- Snowfall at the summit±0
Then
2.7 m108 in
Now
2.7 m108 in
- Snowfall in the village±0
Then
2.4 m93 in
Now
2.3 m92 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
8
Now
9
- Days with a base at the summit−6 days
Then
111
Now
104
- Average temperature at the summit+0.6°C+1.0°F
Then
-2°C29°F
Now
-1°C30°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
- 1950s19501.3 m52 in19513.2 m127 in19521.7 m67 in19533.4 m133 in19543.7 m146 in195597 cm38 in19562.7 m106 in19573.6 m143 in19581.9 m73 in19592.8 m110 in
- 1960s19602.4 m94 in19613.6 m140 in19623.2 m125 in19634.3 m169 in19642.2 m85 in19653.1 m122 in19663.4 m135 in19672.6 m101 in196870 cm28 in19692.3 m91 in
- 1970s19701.7 m66 in19712.1 m83 in19723.2 m126 in19733.0 m117 in19742.8 m112 in19752.6 m103 in19762.6 m101 in19774.9 m194 in19784.6 m180 in19791.9 m76 in
- 1980s19803.2 m124 in19811.9 m74 in19826.8 m266 in19834.5 m176 in19846.2 m245 in19851.8 m71 in19862.2 m85 in19875.7 m223 in19882.1 m84 in19893.8 m151 in
- 1990s19902.0 m80 in19913.8 m148 in19923.3 m130 in19932.1 m82 in19941.9 m76 in19953.2 m127 in19961.6 m61 in19975.3 m207 in199890 cm35 in19993.4 m134 in
- 2000s20004.7 m185 in20013.3 m131 in20024.1 m163 in20031.6 m62 in20042.6 m102 in20053.9 m152 in20063.9 m154 in20073.3 m129 in20082.9 m115 in20093.5 m138 in
- 2010s20102.4 m93 in20113.0 m118 in20121.5 m61 in20131.9 m75 in20142.8 m110 in20153.0 m118 in20162.0 m80 in20172.3 m92 in20181.9 m76 in20191.4 m54 in
- 2020s20202.7 m106 in20211.7 m69 in20222.5 m98 in20232.8 m109 in20243.4 m134 in20252.2 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