SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Mount Rose Ski Tahoe, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Mount Rose Ski Tahoe
Painting of Mount Rose Ski Tahoe
Average winter
3.3 m129 in
Snowiest winter
6.3 m249 in
1951/52
Leanest winter
1.2 m45 in
1976/77
Powder days a winter
10

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 21% of 736 resorts

+1.6°C+2.9°F

The trend: from -6°C21°F to -4°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-8°18°-6°21°-4°25°-2°28°

Snowfall at the summit

−10%

The trend: from 3.4 m135 in to 3.1 m122 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in4.0 m157 in6.0 m236 in

Powder days at the summit

−2 days

The trend: from 11 to 9. Point at a winter to read it.

0510152025

Days with a base at the summit

−33 days

The trend: from 112 to 79. Point at a winter to read it.

050100150

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−4 days

The trend: from 50 to 46. Point at a winter to read it.

20406080

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−4%

Then

3.4 m133 in

Now

3.2 m128 in

Snowfall in the village−4%

Then

3.2 m128 in

Now

3.1 m123 in

Powder days at the summit−1 day

Then

11

Now

9

Days with a base at the summit−16 days

Then

105

Now

89

Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.6°F

Then

-6°C22°F

Now

-5°C23°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
55 cm22 in
21 January 1967
Snowiest winter
6.3 m249 in
1951/52
Leanest winter
1.2 m45 in
1976/77
Deepest snow on the ground
212 cm83 in
20 March 1952
Coldest night at the summit
-29°C-21°F
6 February 1989
Strongest gust at the summit
133 km/h83 mph
26 January 1969

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