76 winters, day by day
Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort, 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 13% of 736 resorts
+1.4°C+2.6°F
The trend: from -7°C20°F to -5°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−27%
The trend: from 4.3 m170 in to 3.2 m125 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−4 days
The trend: from 11 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−35 days
The trend: from 137 to 102. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 74 to 64. 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−14%
Then
4.2 m166 in
Now
3.6 m142 in
- Snowfall in the village−14%
Then
4.2 m166 in
Now
3.6 m142 in
- Powder days at the summit−2 days
Then
10
Now
8
- Days with a base at the summit−16 days
Then
129
Now
113
- Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.5°F
Then
-6°C20°F
Now
-6°C22°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
- 1950s1950/515.0 m195 in1951/525.2 m206 in1952/534.1 m161 in1953/544.9 m194 in1954/555.6 m219 in1955/566.4 m251 in1956/573.9 m154 in1957/582.9 m113 in1958/593.3 m131 in1959/604.2 m167 in
- 1960s1960/613.9 m152 in1961/623.5 m138 in1962/632.6 m103 in1963/644.8 m190 in1964/654.3 m170 in1965/664.6 m180 in1966/674.4 m174 in1967/683.0 m117 in1968/695.5 m215 in1969/703.2 m126 in
- 1970s1970/715.8 m230 in1971/725.6 m222 in1972/732.3 m89 in1973/746.2 m245 in1974/754.4 m174 in1975/764.9 m191 in1976/772.1 m84 in1977/782.6 m104 in1978/793.6 m140 in1979/803.9 m152 in
- 1980s1980/812.1 m83 in1981/824.3 m169 in1982/832.8 m110 in1983/843.2 m124 in1984/854.0 m158 in1985/863.3 m128 in1986/872.7 m107 in1987/883.3 m129 in1988/894.0 m159 in1989/903.2 m124 in
- 1990s1990/912.9 m116 in1991/921.2 m46 in1992/933.6 m141 in1993/942.7 m104 in1994/953.5 m137 in1995/962.9 m114 in1996/974.5 m175 in1997/982.9 m116 in1998/995.0 m197 in1999/004.1 m161 in
- 2000s2000/012.6 m104 in2001/025.1 m199 in2002/033.0 m119 in2003/044.0 m157 in2004/052.0 m79 in2005/064.1 m161 in2006/073.4 m135 in2007/085.9 m233 in2008/094.7 m183 in2009/102.7 m106 in
- 2010s2010/114.6 m182 in2011/124.1 m163 in2012/133.6 m140 in2013/142.7 m106 in2014/151.2 m49 in2015/163.2 m128 in2016/174.4 m173 in2017/183.5 m137 in2018/193.2 m125 in2019/203.1 m121 in
- 2020s2020/214.2 m164 in2021/224.2 m163 in2022/234.5 m176 in2023/243.4 m133 in2024/253.1 m124 in2025/261.7 m66 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