76 winters, day by day
Orsa Grönklitt, Sweden. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Orsa Grönklitt, Sweden. 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 94% of 736 resorts
+3.1°C+5.7°F
The trend: from -7°C20°F to -4°C25°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−9%
The trend: from 1.7 m65 in to 1.5 m59 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−53 days
The trend: from 127 to 74. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 46 to 41. 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
1.6 m64 in
Now
1.5 m59 in
- Snowfall in the village−7%
Then
1.7 m66 in
Now
1.6 m61 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−35 days
Then
118
Now
84
- Average temperature at the summit+2.0°C+3.6°F
Then
-6°C21°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
- 1950s1950/512.2 m87 in1951/521.1 m44 in1952/531.3 m51 in1953/541.4 m56 in1954/551.6 m61 in1955/561.4 m56 in1956/571.3 m51 in1957/5895 cm37 in1958/591.7 m68 in1959/602.1 m84 in
- 1960s1960/611.8 m70 in1961/621.7 m67 in1962/631.0 m41 in1963/6473 cm29 in1964/651.7 m66 in1965/662.3 m92 in1966/672.3 m90 in1967/681.6 m61 in1968/691.8 m72 in1969/702.0 m78 in
- 1970s1970/712.0 m78 in1971/722.0 m78 in1972/731.5 m57 in1973/741.6 m63 in1974/751.8 m72 in1975/761.1 m42 in1976/772.5 m97 in1977/781.7 m67 in1978/791.3 m51 in1979/801.6 m61 in
- 1980s1980/811.5 m60 in1981/821.9 m74 in1982/831.5 m59 in1983/841.4 m54 in1984/852.1 m81 in1985/862.0 m79 in1986/871.7 m67 in1987/882.5 m98 in1988/891.4 m54 in1989/901.6 m64 in
- 1990s1990/911.5 m58 in1991/921.4 m54 in1992/931.4 m54 in1993/941.9 m73 in1994/952.1 m84 in1995/9664 cm25 in1996/971.5 m59 in1997/981.6 m61 in1998/991.7 m68 in1999/001.7 m65 in
- 2000s2000/011.7 m69 in2001/021.5 m59 in2002/031.4 m55 in2003/041.3 m52 in2004/0591 cm36 in2005/061.5 m59 in2006/071.3 m49 in2007/082.2 m87 in2008/091.7 m67 in2009/101.3 m53 in
- 2010s2010/111.3 m52 in2011/121.3 m52 in2012/131.0 m41 in2013/142.0 m78 in2014/151.6 m62 in2015/161.3 m50 in2016/171.5 m58 in2017/182.0 m78 in2018/191.6 m63 in2019/201.5 m59 in
- 2020s2020/211.6 m61 in2021/221.2 m46 in2022/231.8 m70 in2023/241.8 m71 in2024/251.2 m45 in2025/261.4 m53 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