76 winters, day by day
Powder Mountain Ski Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Powder Mountain Ski 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 20% of 736 resorts
+1.6°C+2.9°F
The trend: from -9°C16°F to -7°C19°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−21%
The trend: from 2.6 m104 in to 2.1 m82 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 4 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−46 days
The trend: from 135 to 88. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−10 days
The trend: from 63 to 53. 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−13%
Then
2.5 m100 in
Now
2.2 m87 in
- Snowfall in the village−13%
Then
2.5 m100 in
Now
2.2 m87 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−27 days
Then
126
Now
99
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.7°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
- 1950s1950/513.0 m118 in1951/523.7 m144 in1952/533.0 m119 in1953/542.2 m87 in1954/552.2 m87 in1955/562.8 m111 in1956/572.4 m95 in1957/582.8 m109 in1958/592.2 m86 in1959/602.0 m78 in
- 1960s1960/611.8 m69 in1961/622.8 m110 in1962/632.1 m84 in1963/642.5 m96 in1964/652.9 m115 in1965/661.8 m70 in1966/672.9 m116 in1967/682.2 m87 in1968/692.8 m111 in1969/702.3 m91 in
- 1970s1970/712.9 m116 in1971/722.8 m108 in1972/732.6 m104 in1973/742.9 m114 in1974/752.7 m108 in1975/762.4 m96 in1976/771.0 m40 in1977/782.8 m110 in1978/792.8 m109 in1979/802.7 m104 in
- 1980s1980/811.5 m60 in1981/823.2 m124 in1982/833.2 m126 in1983/843.8 m148 in1984/852.5 m98 in1985/863.2 m125 in1986/871.5 m59 in1987/881.9 m73 in1988/892.6 m101 in1989/901.4 m56 in
- 1990s1990/912.3 m89 in1991/921.3 m52 in1992/932.7 m107 in1993/941.7 m67 in1994/952.3 m91 in1995/962.4 m96 in1996/973.1 m121 in1997/982.7 m105 in1998/992.2 m88 in1999/001.8 m70 in
- 2000s2000/011.7 m66 in2001/022.0 m80 in2002/031.5 m61 in2003/042.3 m89 in2004/052.7 m106 in2005/062.8 m109 in2006/071.7 m65 in2007/082.4 m93 in2008/092.7 m106 in2009/101.8 m69 in
- 2010s2010/113.3 m130 in2011/121.6 m61 in2012/131.7 m66 in2013/142.1 m84 in2014/151.6 m61 in2015/162.3 m89 in2016/173.2 m124 in2017/181.6 m61 in2018/192.5 m100 in2019/202.2 m87 in
- 2020s2020/211.8 m72 in2021/221.7 m68 in2022/233.7 m146 in2023/242.5 m98 in2024/252.1 m83 in2025/261.4 m55 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