76 winters, day by day
Pebble Creek, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Pebble Creek, 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 15% of 736 resorts
+1.5°C+2.7°F
The trend: from -9°C16°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−22%
The trend: from 2.1 m81 in to 1.6 m63 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−35 days
The trend: from 129 to 94. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−13 days
The trend: from 58 to 46. 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−14%
Then
2.0 m78 in
Now
1.7 m67 in
- Snowfall in the village−14%
Then
2.0 m78 in
Now
1.7 m67 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−20 days
Then
123
Now
102
- Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.6°F
Then
-9°C16°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
- 1950s1950/512.2 m86 in1951/522.8 m110 in1952/532.4 m95 in1953/541.7 m67 in1954/551.5 m59 in1955/562.3 m90 in1956/571.7 m67 in1957/582.2 m85 in1958/591.8 m70 in1959/601.5 m57 in
- 1960s1960/611.5 m57 in1961/621.9 m73 in1962/631.5 m58 in1963/642.2 m86 in1964/652.2 m85 in1965/661.6 m65 in1966/672.3 m91 in1967/681.8 m70 in1968/692.2 m87 in1969/701.7 m66 in
- 1970s1970/712.4 m94 in1971/722.2 m87 in1972/731.9 m75 in1973/742.3 m92 in1974/752.5 m98 in1975/762.0 m79 in1976/7790 cm35 in1977/782.1 m81 in1978/792.2 m85 in1979/802.1 m81 in
- 1980s1980/811.1 m42 in1981/822.5 m99 in1982/832.4 m93 in1983/842.8 m109 in1984/851.9 m76 in1985/862.6 m101 in1986/871.2 m48 in1987/881.2 m47 in1988/892.1 m83 in1989/901.3 m51 in
- 1990s1990/911.4 m56 in1991/921.1 m43 in1992/932.4 m94 in1993/941.2 m48 in1994/951.8 m71 in1995/961.9 m76 in1996/972.3 m89 in1997/981.9 m75 in1998/992.0 m78 in1999/001.6 m62 in
- 2000s2000/011.3 m50 in2001/021.7 m68 in2002/031.3 m52 in2003/041.9 m74 in2004/051.8 m69 in2005/062.3 m91 in2006/071.4 m55 in2007/081.8 m70 in2008/091.9 m73 in2009/101.3 m50 in
- 2010s2010/112.3 m92 in2011/121.2 m47 in2012/131.3 m51 in2013/141.4 m55 in2014/151.3 m50 in2015/161.7 m65 in2016/172.2 m85 in2017/181.2 m49 in2018/191.9 m76 in2019/201.6 m65 in
- 2020s2020/211.5 m58 in2021/221.5 m57 in2022/232.6 m104 in2023/242.1 m83 in2024/251.9 m73 in2025/2687 cm34 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