76 winters, day by day
Orcières Merlette, France. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Orcières Merlette, France. 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 26% of 736 resorts
+1.7°C+3.1°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−11%
The trend: from 3.7 m144 in to 3.3 m128 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 11 to 9. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 164 to 161. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−4 days
The trend: from 156 to 152. 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−9%
Then
3.6 m143 in
Now
3.3 m130 in
- Snowfall in the village−15%
Then
3.0 m117 in
Now
2.5 m99 in
- Powder days at the summit−2 days
Then
11
Now
9
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
164
Now
160
- Days with a base in the village−4 days
Then
157
Now
153
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.8°F
Then
-9°C15°F
Now
-8°C17°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
- 1950s1950/514.7 m185 in1951/523.0 m118 in1952/532.8 m110 in1953/542.2 m86 in1954/555.0 m195 in1955/562.8 m111 in1956/572.6 m103 in1957/583.4 m134 in1958/593.6 m142 in1959/604.4 m173 in
- 1960s1960/613.2 m125 in1961/624.4 m174 in1962/634.4 m171 in1963/642.6 m104 in1964/652.1 m84 in1965/665.2 m206 in1966/673.4 m134 in1967/683.0 m117 in1968/693.6 m141 in1969/704.7 m185 in
- 1970s1970/713.7 m144 in1971/723.7 m144 in1972/732.7 m105 in1973/743.3 m131 in1974/753.1 m122 in1975/762.5 m99 in1976/775.0 m198 in1977/785.3 m207 in1978/794.3 m171 in1979/804.0 m157 in
- 1980s1980/813.3 m129 in1981/824.2 m167 in1982/834.2 m164 in1983/843.8 m149 in1984/853.3 m130 in1985/864.5 m177 in1986/872.8 m111 in1987/883.7 m145 in1988/892.9 m113 in1989/903.2 m124 in
- 1990s1990/913.0 m117 in1991/922.5 m99 in1992/932.4 m93 in1993/943.8 m150 in1994/954.1 m163 in1995/963.3 m131 in1996/974.3 m168 in1997/983.5 m139 in1998/993.4 m132 in1999/003.3 m131 in
- 2000s2000/014.7 m183 in2001/021.8 m72 in2002/033.2 m127 in2003/043.3 m130 in2004/052.0 m80 in2005/063.2 m126 in2006/072.2 m88 in2007/083.6 m141 in2008/093.6 m143 in2009/103.9 m155 in
- 2010s2010/112.6 m100 in2011/123.2 m127 in2012/133.8 m150 in2013/143.6 m143 in2014/153.1 m120 in2015/163.1 m122 in2016/173.2 m125 in2017/184.9 m192 in2018/192.9 m113 in2019/204.2 m165 in
- 2020s2020/212.8 m110 in2021/222.2 m87 in2022/232.8 m111 in2023/244.6 m181 in2024/253.2 m128 in2025/263.0 m118 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