76 winters, day by day
Red Mountain Resort, Canada. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Red 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 61% of 736 resorts
+2.3°C+4.1°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -7°C19°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−31%
The trend: from 3.1 m123 in to 2.1 m84 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 4 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−15 days
The trend: from 165 to 150. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
−18 days
The trend: from 163 to 144. 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−18%
Then
3.0 m118 in
Now
2.4 m96 in
- Powder days at the summit−2 days
Then
4
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−8 days
Then
161
Now
152
- Days with a base in the village−9 days
Then
158
Now
148
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.6°F
Then
-9°C15°F
Now
-8°C18°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
- 1950s1950/513.2 m126 in1951/523.1 m121 in1952/533.4 m135 in1953/543.6 m141 in1954/552.7 m104 in1955/563.7 m145 in1956/572.5 m98 in1957/583.2 m124 in1958/593.1 m121 in1959/603.0 m117 in
- 1960s1960/613.5 m136 in1961/622.8 m110 in1962/632.2 m88 in1963/643.8 m150 in1964/653.2 m124 in1965/663.1 m120 in1966/673.8 m148 in1967/682.9 m115 in1968/693.3 m128 in1969/702.4 m93 in
- 1970s1970/714.0 m156 in1971/722.9 m115 in1972/732.4 m95 in1973/744.3 m167 in1974/753.1 m121 in1975/763.0 m118 in1976/771.3 m51 in1977/782.7 m104 in1978/791.9 m76 in1979/802.2 m85 in
- 1980s1980/812.1 m81 in1981/822.8 m112 in1982/833.3 m129 in1983/842.3 m90 in1984/852.1 m83 in1985/861.7 m65 in1986/872.0 m80 in1987/882.0 m80 in1988/892.5 m98 in1989/902.4 m93 in
- 1990s1990/912.4 m93 in1991/921.8 m72 in1992/931.9 m74 in1993/942.3 m91 in1994/952.6 m104 in1995/962.5 m98 in1996/973.3 m129 in1997/982.4 m94 in1998/993.9 m155 in1999/002.9 m115 in
- 2000s2000/011.5 m58 in2001/022.7 m107 in2002/032.2 m87 in2003/042.1 m84 in2004/051.8 m72 in2005/062.9 m113 in2006/072.5 m100 in2007/082.6 m104 in2008/092.0 m80 in2009/102.1 m82 in
- 2010s2010/113.0 m119 in2011/122.7 m105 in2012/132.6 m100 in2013/142.3 m92 in2014/151.5 m58 in2015/162.5 m100 in2016/172.7 m107 in2017/183.2 m127 in2018/192.1 m81 in2019/202.2 m88 in
- 2020s2020/212.3 m91 in2021/222.4 m96 in2022/232.3 m92 in2023/242.0 m78 in2024/252.9 m113 in2025/261.6 m63 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