Myrkdalen, Norway. 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 91% of 736 resorts
+3.0°C+5.5°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+23%
The trend: from 6.1 m241 in to 7.5 m296 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+7 days
The trend: from 20 to 27. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 180 to 171. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−11 days
The trend: from 180 to 169. 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+16%
Then
6.1 m239 in
Now
7.1 m278 in
- Snowfall in the village−7%
Then
3.4 m133 in
Now
3.1 m123 in
- Powder days at the summit+5 days
Then
20
Now
25
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
177
Now
173
- Days with a base in the village−5 days
Then
177
Now
172
- Average temperature at the summit+1.9°C+3.4°F
Then
-8°C18°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
- 1950s1950/513.9 m153 in1951/527.4 m291 in1952/536.3 m247 in1953/546.2 m243 in1954/555.7 m224 in1955/565.1 m201 in1956/577.9 m311 in1957/586.2 m243 in1958/594.4 m174 in1959/603.4 m135 in
- 1960s1960/616.3 m246 in1961/627.2 m285 in1962/633.5 m137 in1963/645.0 m195 in1964/656.6 m259 in1965/664.1 m162 in1966/679.3 m366 in1967/687.7 m303 in1968/694.1 m161 in1969/704.4 m172 in
- 1970s1970/716.5 m257 in1971/726.3 m247 in1972/739.2 m364 in1973/746.9 m272 in1974/758.2 m324 in1975/7610.6 m417 in1976/773.8 m150 in1977/784.9 m191 in1978/796.5 m254 in1979/805.1 m201 in
- 1980s1980/818.9 m352 in1981/825.8 m229 in1982/8310.2 m401 in1983/847.2 m281 in1984/855.2 m206 in1985/865.0 m197 in1986/876.9 m271 in1987/884.8 m187 in1988/8911.5 m453 in1989/9012.5 m491 in
- 1990s1990/915.3 m207 in1991/929.8 m385 in1992/9311.1 m438 in1993/947.5 m295 in1994/959.8 m386 in1995/962.5 m99 in1996/979.5 m373 in1997/985.9 m233 in1998/997.9 m311 in1999/0010.8 m426 in
- 2000s2000/013.7 m146 in2001/028.1 m319 in2002/034.6 m181 in2003/045.6 m220 in2004/059.3 m367 in2005/064.8 m188 in2006/0710.4 m409 in2007/088.4 m331 in2008/096.6 m260 in2009/103.5 m138 in
- 2010s2010/117.0 m276 in2011/128.6 m340 in2012/135.3 m210 in2013/148.8 m346 in2014/1510.2 m402 in2015/168.3 m326 in2016/177.8 m305 in2017/186.8 m267 in2018/194.3 m171 in2019/2010.6 m417 in
- 2020s2020/214.7 m186 in2021/227.6 m298 in2022/235.6 m221 in2023/246.7 m265 in2024/255.9 m231 in2025/264.5 m178 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