76 winters, day by day
Purden Ski Village, Canada. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Purden Ski Village, 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 64% of 736 resorts
+2.3°C+4.2°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−9%
The trend: from 2.1 m83 in to 1.9 m76 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
−9 days
The trend: from 151 to 142. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 60 to 52. 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−7%
Then
2.2 m85 in
Now
2.0 m79 in
- Snowfall in the village−7%
Then
2.1 m83 in
Now
2.0 m77 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
2
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
151
Now
143
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.8°F
Then
-10°C14°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
- 1950s1950/512.0 m79 in1951/522.2 m88 in1952/532.0 m79 in1953/542.2 m87 in1954/552.3 m91 in1955/562.2 m86 in1956/571.7 m69 in1957/581.9 m75 in1958/591.8 m71 in1959/602.0 m78 in
- 1960s1960/611.7 m67 in1961/622.0 m79 in1962/632.3 m90 in1963/642.7 m107 in1964/652.6 m102 in1965/662.5 m100 in1966/673.1 m122 in1967/682.5 m97 in1968/692.0 m78 in1969/701.9 m73 in
- 1970s1970/712.3 m91 in1971/723.1 m120 in1972/731.9 m76 in1973/742.7 m104 in1974/751.9 m76 in1975/762.7 m107 in1976/771.5 m58 in1977/781.3 m49 in1978/792.1 m84 in1979/801.4 m57 in
- 1980s1980/811.3 m52 in1981/822.7 m106 in1982/831.3 m49 in1983/841.4 m56 in1984/852.0 m80 in1985/861.6 m62 in1986/871.6 m62 in1987/882.0 m78 in1988/891.9 m74 in1989/902.3 m92 in
- 1990s1990/912.6 m102 in1991/922.0 m80 in1992/931.3 m52 in1993/942.1 m84 in1994/951.6 m63 in1995/961.7 m67 in1996/972.7 m107 in1997/981.3 m49 in1998/992.5 m100 in1999/001.9 m73 in
- 2000s2000/011.3 m50 in2001/022.2 m86 in2002/031.5 m59 in2003/041.7 m66 in2004/051.4 m55 in2005/061.4 m55 in2006/072.3 m89 in2007/082.3 m92 in2008/092.5 m98 in2009/101.4 m54 in
- 2010s2010/112.3 m90 in2011/122.3 m89 in2012/132.8 m111 in2013/142.9 m116 in2014/151.7 m69 in2015/161.5 m59 in2016/171.6 m61 in2017/182.2 m87 in2018/192.2 m87 in2019/202.5 m97 in
- 2020s2020/212.2 m86 in2021/222.1 m83 in2022/232.1 m81 in2023/241.5 m57 in2024/251.9 m75 in2025/262.1 m84 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