SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Moose Mountain Ski Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Moose Mountain Ski Resort
Average winter
64.237 cm25 in
Snowiest winter
1.6 m62 in
Leanest winter
23 cm9 in
Powder days a winter
0

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 97% of 736 resorts

+3.3°C+6.0°F

The trend: from -19°C-1°F to -15°C5°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-20°-4°-15°5°

Snowfall at the summit

+15%

The trend: from 60 cm24 in to 69 cm27 in. Point at a winter to read it.

50 cm20 in1.0 m39 in1.5 m59 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 0 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.

01122

Days with a base at the summit

+10 days

The trend: from 88 to 99. Point at a winter to read it.

050100150

Days with fresh snow at the summit

+4 days

The trend: from 19 to 23. Point at a winter to read it.

10203040

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−2%

Then

63.667 cm25 in

Now

62.533 cm25 in

Snowfall in the village−1%

Then

63.967 cm25 in

Now

63.033 cm25 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

0

Now

0

Days with a base at the summit−7 days

Then

95

Now

88

Average temperature at the summit+2.2°C+3.9°F

Then

-18°C-1°F

Now

-16°C3°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

Most snow in a day
17 cm7 in
Snowiest winter
1.6 m62 in
Leanest winter
23 cm9 in
Deepest snow on the ground
102 cm40 in
Coldest night at the summit
-58°C-73°F
Strongest gust at the summit
103 km/h64 mph

All winters

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