Mount Buller, 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 3% of 736 resorts
+0.8°C+1.4°F
The trend: from 0°C32°F to 1°C33°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−24%
The trend: from 48 cm19 in to 37 cm15 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
−4 days
The trend: from 13 to 9. 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−22%
Then
44.567 cm18 in
Now
34.667 cm14 in
- Snowfall in the village−15%
Then
37.033 cm15 in
Now
31.433 cm12 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+0.9°F
Then
0°C32°F
Now
1°C33°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
- 1950s19509 cm4 in195155 cm22 in195228 cm11 in195375 cm30 in195410 cm4 in195549 cm19 in195689 cm35 in195723 cm9 in195835 cm14 in195924 cm9 in
- 1960s196057 cm22 in196114 cm6 in196228 cm11 in196325 cm10 in196449 cm19 in196523 cm9 in196660 cm24 in196711 cm4 in196864 cm25 in196950 cm20 in
- 1970s197066 cm26 in197163 cm25 in197273 cm29 in197324 cm9 in197460 cm24 in197537 cm15 in197642 cm17 in197786 cm34 in197861 cm24 in197947 cm19 in
- 1980s198050 cm20 in19811.3 m49 in198232 cm13 in198340 cm16 in198454 cm21 in198552 cm20 in198647 cm19 in198735 cm14 in198811 cm4 in198981 cm32 in
- 1990s199099 cm39 in199156 cm22 in199277 cm30 in199315 cm6 in199434 cm13 in199545 cm18 in199636 cm14 in199728 cm11 in199845 cm18 in199918 cm7 in
- 2000s200037 cm15 in200148 cm19 in200220 cm8 in200361 cm24 in200444 cm17 in200537 cm15 in20063 cm1 in200730 cm12 in200838 cm15 in200928 cm11 in
- 2010s201059 cm23 in201119 cm7 in201232 cm13 in201337 cm15 in201436 cm14 in201527 cm11 in201652 cm20 in201752 cm20 in201857 cm22 in201941 cm16 in
- 2020s202029 cm11 in202128 cm11 in202228 cm11 in202324 cm9 in202414 cm6 in202532 cm13 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