76 winters, day by day
Rauland skisenter, Norway. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Rauland skisenter, Norway. 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 89% of 736 resorts
+3.0°C+5.4°F
The trend: from -9°C16°F to -6°C22°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+20%
The trend: from 2.8 m109 in to 3.3 m131 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+2 days
The trend: from 4 to 6. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−15 days
The trend: from 170 to 155. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+6 days
The trend: from 64 to 70. 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+11%
Then
2.9 m113 in
Now
3.2 m125 in
- Snowfall in the village+12%
Then
2.9 m114 in
Now
3.2 m128 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
4
Now
6
- Days with a base at the summit−9 days
Then
167
Now
158
- Average temperature at the summit+1.9°C+3.4°F
Then
-8°C17°F
Now
-6°C21°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
- 1950s1950/513.7 m144 in1951/523.0 m116 in1952/532.0 m78 in1953/542.8 m112 in1954/552.9 m113 in1955/561.7 m65 in1956/572.5 m99 in1957/582.1 m81 in1958/592.4 m93 in1959/604.2 m167 in
- 1960s1960/613.2 m124 in1961/623.3 m131 in1962/631.9 m73 in1963/641.7 m69 in1964/652.8 m111 in1965/662.5 m100 in1966/674.3 m167 in1967/682.9 m115 in1968/692.7 m108 in1969/702.7 m106 in
- 1970s1970/713.4 m132 in1971/723.5 m136 in1972/732.5 m98 in1973/743.3 m129 in1974/753.6 m140 in1975/762.7 m104 in1976/773.2 m128 in1977/783.5 m137 in1978/792.7 m107 in1979/802.4 m93 in
- 1980s1980/812.3 m91 in1981/822.7 m108 in1982/833.7 m144 in1983/842.5 m98 in1984/853.2 m126 in1985/862.7 m107 in1986/872.8 m109 in1987/883.9 m155 in1988/893.1 m121 in1989/904.7 m185 in
- 1990s1990/912.7 m107 in1991/923.2 m126 in1992/933.7 m145 in1993/943.6 m141 in1994/954.5 m178 in1995/961.4 m54 in1996/972.7 m107 in1997/983.6 m142 in1998/993.2 m126 in1999/003.2 m124 in
- 2000s2000/014.7 m184 in2001/022.9 m116 in2002/032.5 m100 in2003/042.9 m114 in2004/052.5 m99 in2005/062.5 m100 in2006/073.6 m141 in2007/084.4 m174 in2008/093.0 m119 in2009/102.8 m111 in
- 2010s2010/111.8 m71 in2011/123.2 m124 in2012/132.5 m97 in2013/145.4 m213 in2014/153.4 m135 in2015/163.4 m135 in2016/172.5 m99 in2017/183.1 m121 in2018/192.6 m102 in2019/204.3 m169 in
- 2020s2020/213.4 m133 in2021/222.0 m80 in2022/234.3 m169 in2023/244.1 m159 in2024/252.0 m80 in2025/263.0 m117 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