76 winters, day by day
Nesfjellet Alpinsenter, Norway. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Nesfjellet Alpinsenter, 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 96% of 736 resorts
+3.3°C+5.9°F
The trend: from -9°C15°F to -6°C21°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+15%
The trend: from 2.3 m89 in to 2.6 m103 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 2 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−15 days
The trend: from 171 to 156. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+3 days
The trend: from 56 to 59. 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+8%
Then
2.3 m92 in
Now
2.5 m100 in
- Snowfall in the village±0
Then
2.0 m78 in
Now
2.0 m78 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
3
Now
4
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
167
Now
160
- Average temperature at the summit+2.1°C+3.7°F
Then
-9°C16°F
Now
-7°C20°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
- 1950s1950/513.5 m139 in1951/522.2 m86 in1952/531.5 m57 in1953/542.2 m86 in1954/552.5 m96 in1955/561.5 m61 in1956/571.7 m66 in1957/581.7 m68 in1958/592.0 m77 in1959/603.6 m143 in
- 1960s1960/612.6 m101 in1961/622.6 m102 in1962/631.5 m59 in1963/641.3 m50 in1964/652.1 m83 in1965/662.3 m92 in1966/673.4 m135 in1967/682.3 m92 in1968/692.7 m104 in1969/702.4 m96 in
- 1970s1970/712.8 m112 in1971/722.9 m115 in1972/731.7 m67 in1973/742.6 m101 in1974/752.6 m102 in1975/761.7 m67 in1976/773.1 m123 in1977/783.2 m125 in1978/792.3 m91 in1979/802.0 m78 in
- 1980s1980/811.6 m61 in1981/822.2 m88 in1982/832.6 m100 in1983/842.0 m77 in1984/852.9 m115 in1985/862.3 m91 in1986/872.5 m97 in1987/883.5 m137 in1988/892.1 m82 in1989/903.1 m122 in
- 1990s1990/912.1 m83 in1991/922.3 m92 in1992/932.4 m93 in1993/942.8 m111 in1994/953.5 m136 in1995/961.1 m43 in1996/971.7 m67 in1997/983.2 m127 in1998/992.4 m94 in1999/002.1 m82 in
- 2000s2000/014.5 m178 in2001/022.1 m82 in2002/032.0 m77 in2003/042.4 m96 in2004/051.6 m63 in2005/062.3 m92 in2006/072.6 m102 in2007/083.7 m144 in2008/092.5 m100 in2009/102.7 m105 in
- 2010s2010/111.4 m56 in2011/122.4 m94 in2012/131.9 m73 in2013/144.1 m163 in2014/152.5 m100 in2015/162.6 m102 in2016/172.1 m81 in2017/182.7 m104 in2018/192.3 m89 in2019/203.2 m127 in
- 2020s2020/212.9 m115 in2021/221.4 m57 in2022/233.8 m150 in2023/243.3 m128 in2024/251.5 m60 in2025/262.3 m91 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