76 winters, day by day
Red Lodge Mountain, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Red Lodge Mountain, 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 11% of 736 resorts
+1.4°C+2.4°F
The trend: from -10°C13°F to -9°C16°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−15%
The trend: from 1.7 m67 in to 1.5 m57 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
−7 days
The trend: from 158 to 150. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−27 days
The trend: from 148 to 121. 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−14%
Then
1.7 m66 in
Now
1.4 m57 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
2
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−7 days
Then
154
Now
148
- Days with a base in the village−22 days
Then
142
Now
120
- Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.6°F
Then
-10°C13°F
Now
-9°C15°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
- 1950s1950/511.7 m67 in1951/521.2 m46 in1952/531.5 m60 in1953/541.5 m59 in1954/551.4 m54 in1955/561.9 m73 in1956/571.6 m63 in1957/581.6 m63 in1958/592.0 m78 in1959/601.4 m56 in
- 1960s1960/611.2 m47 in1961/621.4 m54 in1962/631.7 m68 in1963/641.5 m59 in1964/651.9 m73 in1965/661.3 m50 in1966/672.1 m83 in1967/682.1 m84 in1968/691.4 m56 in1969/701.8 m69 in
- 1970s1970/712.0 m78 in1971/721.6 m65 in1972/732.2 m85 in1973/741.7 m67 in1974/751.8 m71 in1975/762.1 m83 in1976/771.3 m52 in1977/781.5 m59 in1978/791.8 m72 in1979/802.2 m87 in
- 1980s1980/811.1 m43 in1981/821.9 m76 in1982/831.8 m72 in1983/842.0 m79 in1984/851.3 m50 in1985/861.9 m76 in1986/871.8 m69 in1987/881.6 m62 in1988/892.0 m80 in1989/901.7 m69 in
- 1990s1990/912.2 m86 in1991/921.3 m53 in1992/931.6 m61 in1993/941.3 m52 in1994/951.5 m60 in1995/961.8 m70 in1996/972.1 m81 in1997/981.3 m50 in1998/991.5 m57 in1999/001.3 m50 in
- 2000s2000/011.1 m44 in2001/021.3 m50 in2002/031.4 m54 in2003/041.2 m47 in2004/051.2 m49 in2005/061.2 m46 in2006/071.2 m49 in2007/081.3 m53 in2008/091.8 m71 in2009/1097 cm38 in
- 2010s2010/112.0 m80 in2011/121.3 m51 in2012/131.2 m48 in2013/141.9 m76 in2014/151.5 m57 in2015/161.2 m48 in2016/171.7 m67 in2017/182.4 m93 in2018/191.6 m62 in2019/201.4 m56 in
- 2020s2020/211.2 m47 in2021/221.3 m50 in2022/231.7 m67 in2023/241.2 m46 in2024/251.5 m59 in2025/261.2 m48 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