76 winters, day by day
Pico Mountain Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Pico Mountain Resort, 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 28% of 736 resorts
+1.8°C+3.3°F
The trend: from -9°C17°F to -7°C20°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−17%
The trend: from 2.1 m82 in to 1.7 m68 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 4 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−53 days
The trend: from 103 to 50. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 43 to 36. 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−10%
Then
2.1 m81 in
Now
1.9 m73 in
- Snowfall in the village−10%
Then
2.1 m81 in
Now
1.9 m73 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
4
Now
4
- Days with a base at the summit−32 days
Then
99
Now
66
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F
Then
-8°C17°F
Now
-7°C19°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 in1951/522.4 m96 in1952/532.1 m81 in1953/542.0 m78 in1954/552.0 m80 in1955/562.4 m93 in1956/571.6 m63 in1957/582.8 m111 in1958/592.1 m81 in1959/602.1 m81 in
- 1960s1960/611.6 m63 in1961/622.0 m77 in1962/632.4 m93 in1963/641.6 m63 in1964/651.4 m57 in1965/661.8 m70 in1966/671.7 m68 in1967/681.7 m67 in1968/692.7 m107 in1969/702.1 m83 in
- 1970s1970/712.5 m97 in1971/722.7 m105 in1972/732.3 m92 in1973/742.0 m78 in1974/752.4 m94 in1975/762.3 m90 in1976/772.0 m80 in1977/782.2 m85 in1978/792.1 m83 in1979/8097 cm38 in
- 1980s1980/811.5 m59 in1981/822.0 m77 in1982/831.4 m54 in1983/842.1 m84 in1984/851.8 m72 in1985/861.6 m65 in1986/872.0 m77 in1987/881.5 m60 in1988/891.3 m53 in1989/901.6 m64 in
- 1990s1990/911.4 m54 in1991/921.2 m48 in1992/932.1 m84 in1993/942.1 m84 in1994/951.3 m52 in1995/962.1 m84 in1996/972.6 m104 in1997/982.1 m84 in1998/991.7 m67 in1999/001.6 m64 in
- 2000s2000/012.4 m93 in2001/021.7 m66 in2002/032.3 m90 in2003/041.7 m69 in2004/051.5 m59 in2005/061.2 m48 in2006/072.3 m89 in2007/082.4 m96 in2008/091.8 m70 in2009/101.8 m70 in
- 2010s2010/112.2 m85 in2011/121.2 m48 in2012/131.4 m55 in2013/141.9 m75 in2014/152.1 m84 in2015/1685 cm33 in2016/172.0 m78 in2017/181.8 m72 in2018/192.4 m93 in2019/202.0 m80 in
- 2020s2020/211.5 m60 in2021/221.7 m69 in2022/232.1 m83 in2023/242.2 m85 in2024/251.8 m69 in2025/261.5 m57 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