Lofsdalen, Sweden. 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 85% of 736 resorts
+2.8°C+5.1°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -7°C19°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+2%
The trend: from 1.6 m62 in to 1.6 m63 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−20 days
The trend: from 154 to 134. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 49 to 48. 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
1.6 m61 in
Now
1.6 m62 in
- Snowfall in the village−3%
Then
1.3 m51 in
Now
1.3 m50 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−11 days
Then
149
Now
138
- Average temperature at the summit+1.8°C+3.2°F
Then
-9°C15°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
- 1950s1950/512.1 m81 in1951/521.2 m48 in1952/531.5 m58 in1953/541.2 m46 in1954/551.4 m55 in1955/561.3 m50 in1956/571.2 m46 in1957/581.1 m43 in1958/591.7 m65 in1959/602.0 m78 in
- 1960s1960/611.5 m60 in1961/621.7 m68 in1962/631.1 m44 in1963/6478 cm31 in1964/651.8 m71 in1965/662.2 m87 in1966/672.2 m87 in1967/681.7 m68 in1968/691.6 m63 in1969/701.7 m68 in
- 1970s1970/711.6 m64 in1971/721.5 m59 in1972/731.7 m68 in1973/741.5 m57 in1974/751.8 m69 in1975/761.5 m57 in1976/772.1 m84 in1977/781.6 m64 in1978/791.3 m51 in1979/801.1 m44 in
- 1980s1980/811.4 m56 in1981/821.9 m74 in1982/831.6 m63 in1983/841.3 m51 in1984/852.0 m80 in1985/861.7 m66 in1986/871.8 m72 in1987/882.4 m94 in1988/891.8 m71 in1989/901.8 m72 in
- 1990s1990/911.4 m54 in1991/921.9 m73 in1992/931.5 m59 in1993/941.6 m63 in1994/952.2 m87 in1995/9670 cm28 in1996/971.4 m54 in1997/981.6 m63 in1998/991.8 m69 in1999/001.7 m67 in
- 2000s2000/012.2 m86 in2001/021.6 m61 in2002/031.1 m43 in2003/041.1 m45 in2004/051.5 m59 in2005/061.7 m66 in2006/071.4 m56 in2007/082.1 m84 in2008/091.7 m67 in2009/101.4 m55 in
- 2010s2010/111.3 m50 in2011/121.5 m60 in2012/131.1 m45 in2013/141.9 m74 in2014/151.7 m65 in2015/161.6 m61 in2016/171.5 m60 in2017/181.9 m74 in2018/191.5 m57 in2019/201.8 m72 in
- 2020s2020/211.5 m59 in2021/221.3 m50 in2022/231.8 m72 in2023/241.9 m75 in2024/251.2 m45 in2025/261.4 m53 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