Los Puquios, Argentina. 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 5% of 736 resorts
+0.9°C+1.7°F
The trend: from -3°C26°F to -2°C28°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−4%
The trend: from 3.3 m129 in to 3.2 m124 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 9 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 149 to 149. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 40 to 39. 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+2%
Then
3.1 m121 in
Now
3.1 m123 in
- Snowfall in the village+1%
Then
2.8 m111 in
Now
2.8 m112 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
9
Now
9
- Days with a base at the summit±0 days
Then
148
Now
148
- Average temperature at the summit+0.5°C+1.0°F
Then
-3°C27°F
Now
-2°C28°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
- 1950s19501.5 m60 in19513.5 m139 in19521.9 m75 in19533.2 m125 in19544.3 m170 in195588 cm35 in19563.3 m128 in19574.2 m166 in19582.5 m96 in19594.0 m157 in
- 1960s19603.5 m137 in19613.2 m126 in19623.6 m140 in19634.4 m172 in19642.2 m85 in19654.2 m166 in19662.7 m108 in19672.0 m77 in19681.4 m53 in19692.6 m104 in
- 1970s19701.7 m67 in19712.0 m77 in19725.1 m200 in19733.0 m120 in19742.8 m109 in19752.3 m92 in19763.2 m125 in19775.1 m202 in19785.7 m225 in19792.4 m94 in
- 1980s19802.5 m99 in19811.5 m58 in19828.5 m333 in19834.0 m159 in19846.4 m254 in19851.9 m76 in19863.0 m117 in19877.0 m276 in19882.1 m84 in19893.9 m152 in
- 1990s19902.4 m93 in19913.6 m143 in19923.3 m129 in19932.2 m85 in19942.6 m104 in19953.0 m120 in19961.4 m53 in19976.4 m251 in19981.2 m46 in19993.1 m120 in
- 2000s20004.8 m189 in20014.2 m166 in20024.4 m173 in20032.3 m89 in20042.5 m100 in20055.6 m220 in20065.3 m207 in20073.8 m150 in20083.7 m147 in20094.2 m167 in
- 2010s20101.9 m76 in20113.0 m117 in20122.0 m77 in20132.4 m96 in20142.5 m98 in20154.7 m183 in20162.8 m109 in20171.8 m69 in20182.5 m96 in20191.2 m46 in
- 2020s20202.9 m114 in20211.6 m62 in20222.3 m91 in20234.0 m157 in20243.4 m133 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