Mt Baker, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
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 14% of 736 resorts
+1.5°C+2.7°F
The trend: from -5°C24°F to -3°C26°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−27%
The trend: from 10.3 m405 in to 7.6 m298 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−11 days
The trend: from 39 to 28. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−8 days
The trend: from 172 to 165. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 102 to 92. 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 1950/51–1979/80Now 1996/97–2025/26
- Snowfall at the summit−15%
Then
10.0 m392 in
Now
8.5 m334 in
- Snowfall in the village−22%
Then
6.9 m273 in
Now
5.4 m214 in
- Powder days at the summit−6 days
Then
38
Now
32
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
170
Now
165
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.8°F
Then
-4°C24°F
Now
-3°C26°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
- 1950s1950/519.8 m387 in1951/529.6 m377 in1952/5310.4 m408 in1953/5413.6 m535 in1954/5510.1 m396 in1955/5612.4 m488 in1956/578.9 m349 in1957/589.5 m373 in1958/5910.5 m415 in1959/609.0 m355 in
- 1960s1960/6110.7 m423 in1961/628.8 m344 in1962/637.1 m279 in1963/6413.1 m514 in1964/659.4 m368 in1965/6610.5 m413 in1966/6711.9 m467 in1967/689.7 m383 in1968/6910.3 m404 in1969/708.0 m317 in
- 1970s1970/7112.9 m508 in1971/7213.4 m529 in1972/737.1 m280 in1973/7412.9 m509 in1974/7510.0 m394 in1975/7611.6 m456 in1976/775.6 m220 in1977/787.1 m280 in1978/797.4 m291 in1979/807.4 m291 in
- 1980s1980/816.0 m236 in1981/8210.8 m424 in1982/838.2 m321 in1983/847.8 m306 in1984/858.2 m321 in1985/865.5 m217 in1986/877.3 m288 in1987/889.1 m357 in1988/898.7 m342 in1989/908.8 m347 in
- 1990s1990/919.5 m373 in1991/926.5 m254 in1992/935.8 m227 in1993/947.6 m300 in1994/958.2 m321 in1995/967.7 m302 in1996/9711.6 m456 in1997/987.4 m290 in1998/9914.1 m555 in1999/009.5 m372 in
- 2000s2000/016.0 m237 in2001/029.6 m377 in2002/037.1 m281 in2003/047.8 m308 in2004/055.1 m202 in2005/069.7 m383 in2006/0710.3 m404 in2007/089.8 m387 in2008/097.1 m280 in2009/107.8 m307 in
- 2010s2010/1110.0 m393 in2011/1211.0 m431 in2012/139.7 m380 in2013/149.0 m354 in2014/154.0 m156 in2015/168.1 m317 in2016/178.8 m347 in2017/1810.0 m392 in2018/196.5 m257 in2019/208.7 m341 in
- 2020s2020/219.6 m378 in2021/228.6 m337 in2022/237.8 m306 in2023/246.3 m248 in2024/257.1 m280 in2025/266.6 m261 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