76 winters, day by day
Mzaar Kfardebian Ski Resort, Lebanon. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Mzaar Kfardebian Ski Resort, Lebanon. 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 3% of 736 resorts
+0.7°C+1.3°F
The trend: from 0°C31°F to 0°C33°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−32%
The trend: from 1.3 m50 in to 86 cm34 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 3 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 4 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 23 to 17. 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
1.1 m45 in
Now
96.333 cm38 in
- Snowfall in the village−7%
Then
84.3 cm33 in
Now
78.567 cm31 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit±0 days
Then
4
Now
4
- Average temperature at the summit+0.4°C+0.7°F
Then
0°C32°F
Now
0°C33°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
- 1950s1950/5136 cm14 in1951/522.3 m91 in1952/532.7 m107 in1953/542.9 m115 in1954/5526 cm10 in1955/561.3 m52 in1956/5796 cm38 in1957/5869 cm27 in1958/591.4 m55 in1959/6039 cm15 in
- 1960s1960/6160 cm24 in1961/6289 cm35 in1962/6371 cm28 in1963/641.0 m40 in1964/651.0 m41 in1965/6646 cm18 in1966/671.9 m75 in1967/681.9 m76 in1968/691.1 m44 in1969/7054 cm21 in
- 1970s1970/7185 cm33 in1971/721.6 m63 in1972/731.2 m47 in1973/741.2 m48 in1974/7590 cm35 in1975/7678 cm31 in1976/7799 cm39 in1977/7899 cm39 in1978/7938 cm15 in1979/801.6 m62 in
- 1980s1980/811.1 m43 in1981/8290 cm35 in1982/832.4 m94 in1983/8457 cm22 in1984/8598 cm39 in1985/8644 cm17 in1986/871.8 m70 in1987/8890 cm35 in1988/8994 cm37 in1989/9075 cm30 in
- 1990s1990/9149 cm19 in1991/922.7 m106 in1992/931.5 m60 in1993/9448 cm19 in1994/951.2 m48 in1995/9668 cm27 in1996/971.2 m49 in1997/981.1 m41 in1998/9940 cm16 in1999/001.3 m49 in
- 2000s2000/0164 cm25 in2001/0289 cm35 in2002/032.2 m85 in2003/041.9 m74 in2004/051.5 m60 in2005/061.0 m41 in2006/0785 cm33 in2007/0887 cm34 in2008/0996 cm38 in2009/1037 cm15 in
- 2010s2010/1151 cm20 in2011/122.2 m85 in2012/1381 cm32 in2013/1435 cm14 in2014/151.3 m50 in2015/1667 cm26 in2016/1791 cm36 in2017/1844 cm17 in2018/191.2 m47 in2019/201.0 m39 in
- 2020s2020/2182 cm32 in2021/221.4 m57 in2022/2392 cm36 in2023/2419 cm7 in2024/2552 cm20 in2025/2655 cm22 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