76 winters, day by day
Mount Lyford Alpine Resort, New Zealand. Every ski winter from 1950 to 2025.
Mount Lyford Alpine Resort, New Zealand. 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 40% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.6°F
The trend: from -4°C25°F to -2°C29°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−3%
The trend: from 58 cm23 in to 57 cm22 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
−5 days
The trend: from 13 to 8. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+2 days
The trend: from 16 to 18. 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−6%
Then
57.3 cm23 in
Now
53.6 cm21 in
- Snowfall in the village−7%
Then
54.067 cm21 in
Now
50.3 cm20 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
11
Now
8
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.1°F
Then
-3°C26°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
- 1950s195049 cm19 in195151 cm20 in195247 cm19 in195367 cm26 in195464 cm25 in195534 cm13 in195656 cm22 in195749 cm19 in195818 cm7 in195946 cm18 in
- 1960s196060 cm24 in196196 cm38 in196227 cm11 in196388 cm35 in196434 cm13 in196579 cm31 in196686 cm34 in196725 cm10 in196847 cm19 in196926 cm10 in
- 1970s197028 cm11 in197151 cm20 in197229 cm11 in197336 cm14 in197489 cm35 in197585 cm33 in197698 cm39 in19771.1 m42 in197875 cm30 in197972 cm28 in
- 1980s198042 cm17 in198165 cm26 in198255 cm22 in198350 cm20 in198439 cm15 in198557 cm22 in19861.2 m48 in198736 cm14 in198839 cm15 in198964 cm25 in
- 1990s199056 cm22 in199140 cm16 in19921.4 m55 in199344 cm17 in199455 cm22 in19951.3 m52 in199681 cm32 in199762 cm24 in199828 cm11 in199942 cm17 in
- 2000s200042 cm17 in200139 cm15 in200235 cm14 in200378 cm31 in200463 cm25 in200528 cm11 in200698 cm39 in200743 cm17 in200890 cm35 in200956 cm22 in
- 2010s201071 cm28 in201173 cm29 in201264 cm25 in201397 cm38 in201424 cm9 in201553 cm21 in201650 cm20 in201758 cm23 in201839 cm15 in201946 cm18 in
- 2020s202041 cm16 in202144 cm17 in202261 cm24 in202339 cm15 in202436 cm14 in202527 cm11 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