76 winters, day by day
Nordic Valley Resort (Wolf Mountain), United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Nordic Valley Resort (Wolf Mountain), 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 31% of 736 resorts
+1.9°C+3.4°F
The trend: from -5°C23°F to -3°C26°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−26%
The trend: from 2.5 m98 in to 1.8 m72 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 4 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−50 days
The trend: from 109 to 59. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−14 days
The trend: from 58 to 45. 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−17%
Then
2.3 m92 in
Now
2.0 m77 in
- Snowfall in the village−21%
Then
1.4 m56 in
Now
1.1 m45 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
3
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−31 days
Then
100
Now
69
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.0°F
Then
-5°C23°F
Now
-4°C25°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
- 1950s1950/512.8 m111 in1951/523.7 m144 in1952/532.9 m115 in1953/542.0 m78 in1954/552.0 m79 in1955/562.5 m98 in1956/572.0 m80 in1957/582.7 m105 in1958/592.0 m78 in1959/601.9 m73 in
- 1960s1960/611.6 m63 in1961/622.6 m104 in1962/631.9 m74 in1963/642.3 m91 in1964/652.8 m109 in1965/661.5 m59 in1966/672.6 m103 in1967/682.2 m87 in1968/692.7 m106 in1969/702.2 m85 in
- 1970s1970/712.5 m99 in1971/722.4 m94 in1972/732.5 m97 in1973/742.7 m108 in1974/752.6 m102 in1975/762.2 m88 in1976/7796 cm38 in1977/782.5 m99 in1978/792.6 m101 in1979/802.5 m98 in
- 1980s1980/811.5 m58 in1981/822.8 m111 in1982/833.0 m117 in1983/843.8 m149 in1984/852.4 m93 in1985/862.9 m112 in1986/871.4 m56 in1987/881.8 m70 in1988/892.4 m94 in1989/901.2 m48 in
- 1990s1990/912.1 m81 in1991/921.2 m47 in1992/932.5 m99 in1993/941.5 m58 in1994/952.2 m87 in1995/962.3 m90 in1996/972.7 m105 in1997/982.5 m100 in1998/991.9 m76 in1999/001.6 m65 in
- 2000s2000/011.5 m61 in2001/021.9 m74 in2002/031.3 m50 in2003/042.2 m85 in2004/052.2 m85 in2005/062.4 m96 in2006/071.4 m55 in2007/082.3 m89 in2008/092.4 m94 in2009/101.6 m63 in
- 2010s2010/113.0 m119 in2011/121.4 m55 in2012/131.5 m59 in2013/141.8 m72 in2014/151.2 m48 in2015/161.9 m76 in2016/172.6 m102 in2017/181.0 m41 in2018/192.2 m88 in2019/202.1 m82 in
- 2020s2020/211.6 m63 in2021/221.6 m62 in2022/233.5 m137 in2023/242.3 m89 in2024/252.0 m77 in2025/2697 cm38 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