76 winters, day by day
Panorama Mountain Resort, Canada. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Panorama Mountain Resort, Canada. 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 10% of 736 resorts
+1.3°C+2.4°F
The trend: from -12°C10°F to -11°C12°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−20%
The trend: from 2.6 m102 in to 2.1 m81 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 2 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−4 days
The trend: from 167 to 163. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−8 days
The trend: from 163 to 155. 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
2.6 m101 in
Now
2.2 m86 in
- Snowfall in the village−24%
Then
1.9 m73 in
Now
1.4 m55 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
2
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
167
Now
163
- Days with a base in the village−7 days
Then
162
Now
155
- Average temperature at the summit+0.8°C+1.5°F
Then
-12°C10°F
Now
-11°C12°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
- 1950s1950/512.7 m108 in1951/521.8 m70 in1952/532.5 m97 in1953/543.9 m153 in1954/552.2 m88 in1955/563.0 m118 in1956/572.5 m100 in1957/582.3 m90 in1958/593.0 m118 in1959/602.2 m88 in
- 1960s1960/612.5 m99 in1961/622.2 m87 in1962/632.5 m98 in1963/642.7 m106 in1964/652.6 m101 in1965/662.7 m107 in1966/673.5 m136 in1967/682.8 m111 in1968/692.5 m99 in1969/701.9 m74 in
- 1970s1970/713.5 m138 in1971/723.3 m131 in1972/732.3 m91 in1973/742.9 m116 in1974/752.4 m95 in1975/762.7 m107 in1976/771.6 m62 in1977/782.4 m93 in1978/792.0 m80 in1979/802.1 m82 in
- 1980s1980/812.3 m92 in1981/822.5 m100 in1982/832.2 m87 in1983/841.6 m63 in1984/851.7 m68 in1985/861.4 m55 in1986/871.9 m76 in1987/881.8 m72 in1988/892.0 m79 in1989/902.2 m88 in
- 1990s1990/912.7 m105 in1991/921.8 m70 in1992/931.8 m70 in1993/941.9 m75 in1994/952.1 m83 in1995/963.0 m118 in1996/972.8 m110 in1997/981.7 m65 in1998/992.7 m107 in1999/002.0 m77 in
- 2000s2000/011.5 m61 in2001/022.3 m90 in2002/032.1 m81 in2003/041.6 m64 in2004/051.7 m68 in2005/062.1 m81 in2006/072.5 m98 in2007/082.1 m82 in2008/091.9 m76 in2009/101.4 m56 in
- 2010s2010/112.8 m109 in2011/123.0 m116 in2012/132.0 m77 in2013/142.6 m101 in2014/152.1 m83 in2015/161.9 m75 in2016/172.5 m96 in2017/182.9 m113 in2018/191.8 m70 in2019/202.3 m91 in
- 2020s2020/212.1 m84 in2021/222.6 m100 in2022/232.0 m77 in2023/242.6 m100 in2024/251.8 m70 in2025/262.8 m111 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