76 winters, day by day
Powder King Mountain Resort, Canada. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Powder King 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 73% of 736 resorts
+2.5°C+4.5°F
The trend: from -12°C10°F to -10°C14°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+1%
The trend: from 2.9 m113 in to 2.9 m114 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 3 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
+3 days
The trend: from 172 to 174. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 71 to 68. 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−1%
Then
2.9 m115 in
Now
2.9 m114 in
- Snowfall in the village−8%
Then
2.4 m94 in
Now
2.2 m86 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit+2 days
Then
172
Now
174
- Average temperature at the summit+1.6°C+2.9°F
Then
-12°C11°F
Now
-10°C14°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
- 1950s1950/512.4 m96 in1951/523.3 m128 in1952/532.7 m106 in1953/543.2 m125 in1954/553.3 m130 in1955/562.6 m102 in1956/572.5 m98 in1957/583.0 m116 in1958/593.0 m117 in1959/602.8 m111 in
- 1960s1960/612.7 m106 in1961/622.6 m102 in1962/632.8 m110 in1963/644.2 m165 in1964/652.4 m94 in1965/662.9 m116 in1966/674.1 m162 in1967/683.1 m120 in1968/691.9 m76 in1969/703.4 m135 in
- 1970s1970/712.9 m115 in1971/724.0 m157 in1972/733.6 m143 in1973/743.0 m119 in1974/752.4 m96 in1975/763.5 m138 in1976/772.6 m104 in1977/781.8 m70 in1978/792.8 m108 in1979/801.9 m75 in
- 1980s1980/813.0 m117 in1981/822.9 m115 in1982/831.9 m74 in1983/842.4 m93 in1984/852.7 m105 in1985/862.3 m92 in1986/873.0 m119 in1987/882.7 m107 in1988/892.7 m105 in1989/903.3 m129 in
- 1990s1990/913.2 m126 in1991/923.5 m139 in1992/931.9 m76 in1993/943.2 m124 in1994/953.0 m120 in1995/962.9 m115 in1996/973.1 m123 in1997/982.2 m87 in1998/993.2 m124 in1999/002.5 m98 in
- 2000s2000/011.9 m76 in2001/023.3 m131 in2002/032.5 m99 in2003/042.3 m91 in2004/053.1 m121 in2005/062.1 m83 in2006/074.3 m170 in2007/083.3 m131 in2008/093.0 m117 in2009/102.0 m78 in
- 2010s2010/112.9 m114 in2011/123.7 m146 in2012/132.8 m111 in2013/143.8 m150 in2014/152.8 m109 in2015/162.7 m106 in2016/172.3 m89 in2017/182.9 m116 in2018/192.9 m115 in2019/203.3 m130 in
- 2020s2020/213.5 m137 in2021/223.3 m129 in2022/232.7 m107 in2023/242.1 m82 in2024/252.5 m99 in2025/263.8 m150 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