76 winters, day by day
Mt. Hood Skibowl, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Mt. Hood Skibowl, 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 11% of 736 resorts
+1.4°C+2.5°F
The trend: from -3°C27°F to -1°C30°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−26%
The trend: from 4.3 m167 in to 3.1 m124 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
−40 days
The trend: from 134 to 94. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 73 to 63. 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 m164 in
Now
3.6 m141 in
- Snowfall in the village−20%
Then
2.5 m97 in
Now
2.0 m78 in
- Powder days at the summit−2 days
Then
10
Now
8
- Days with a base at the summit−18 days
Then
126
Now
107
- Average temperature at the summit+0.8°C+1.5°F
Then
-2°C28°F
Now
-2°C29°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
- 1950s1950/514.9 m194 in1951/525.2 m206 in1952/534.0 m158 in1953/544.8 m189 in1954/555.5 m217 in1955/566.3 m249 in1956/573.9 m152 in1957/582.8 m110 in1958/593.3 m128 in1959/604.1 m163 in
- 1960s1960/613.8 m148 in1961/623.4 m133 in1962/632.6 m101 in1963/644.8 m187 in1964/654.3 m167 in1965/664.5 m179 in1966/674.3 m168 in1967/682.9 m116 in1968/695.5 m215 in1969/703.1 m123 in
- 1970s1970/715.7 m226 in1971/725.5 m218 in1972/732.2 m87 in1973/746.2 m244 in1974/754.4 m172 in1975/764.8 m189 in1976/772.1 m82 in1977/782.5 m100 in1978/793.5 m139 in1979/803.9 m152 in
- 1980s1980/812.1 m82 in1981/824.3 m167 in1982/832.8 m109 in1983/843.1 m122 in1984/854.0 m157 in1985/863.2 m126 in1986/872.7 m105 in1987/883.3 m128 in1988/894.0 m158 in1989/903.1 m124 in
- 1990s1990/912.9 m113 in1991/921.1 m44 in1992/933.6 m140 in1993/942.6 m103 in1994/953.4 m135 in1995/962.8 m111 in1996/974.4 m174 in1997/982.9 m115 in1998/995.0 m195 in1999/004.1 m159 in
- 2000s2000/012.6 m103 in2001/025.0 m198 in2002/033.0 m117 in2003/044.0 m156 in2004/052.0 m77 in2005/064.1 m159 in2006/073.4 m135 in2007/085.9 m232 in2008/094.6 m181 in2009/102.7 m104 in
- 2010s2010/114.6 m181 in2011/124.1 m161 in2012/133.5 m139 in2013/142.6 m104 in2014/151.2 m47 in2015/163.2 m125 in2016/174.3 m171 in2017/183.4 m135 in2018/193.1 m124 in2019/203.0 m120 in
- 2020s2020/214.1 m161 in2021/224.1 m161 in2022/234.4 m174 in2023/243.3 m129 in2024/253.1 m122 in2025/261.6 m64 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