Mount Baw Baw, Australia. 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 2% of 736 resorts
+0.7°C+1.2°F
The trend: from 1°C35°F to 2°C36°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−20%
The trend: from 13 cm5 in to 11 cm4 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 0 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 0 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 4 to 4. 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−21%
Then
12.067 cm5 in
Now
9.567 cm4 in
- Snowfall in the village−17%
Then
11.3 cm4 in
Now
9.4 cm4 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Average temperature at the summit+0.5°C+0.8°F
Then
2°C35°F
Now
2°C36°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
- 1950s19502 cm0.8 in195121 cm8 in19528 cm3 in195317 cm7 in19543 cm1 in19559 cm4 in195625 cm10 in19578 cm3 in19588 cm3 in195911 cm4 in
- 1960s196015 cm6 in19614 cm2 in196211 cm4 in19637 cm3 in19647 cm3 in19655 cm2 in196615 cm6 in19674 cm2 in196813 cm5 in196925 cm10 in
- 1970s197015 cm6 in19718 cm3 in197213 cm5 in19734 cm2 in197421 cm8 in197513 cm5 in197611 cm4 in197726 cm10 in197826 cm10 in19797 cm3 in
- 1980s198014 cm6 in198124 cm9 in198219 cm7 in198312 cm5 in198418 cm7 in19858 cm3 in198628 cm11 in198715 cm6 in19883 cm1 in198911 cm4 in
- 1990s199028 cm11 in199121 cm8 in199224 cm9 in19938 cm3 in199416 cm6 in199516 cm6 in19967 cm3 in199711 cm4 in199816 cm6 in19994 cm2 in
- 2000s20009 cm4 in200110 cm4 in20024 cm2 in200315 cm6 in20048 cm3 in200512 cm5 in20062 cm0.8 in20077 cm3 in200810 cm4 in200911 cm4 in
- 2010s201017 cm7 in20115 cm2 in201211 cm4 in20135 cm2 in201413 cm5 in201510 cm4 in201613 cm5 in201713 cm5 in201811 cm4 in201916 cm6 in
- 2020s202015 cm6 in20215 cm2 in202212 cm5 in20238 cm3 in20243 cm1 in20254 cm2 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