76 winters, day by day
Скијачки центар Попова шапка, North Macedonia. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Скијачки центар Попова шапка, North Macedonia. 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 22% of 736 resorts
+1.7°C+3.0°F
The trend: from -7°C20°F to -5°C23°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−17%
The trend: from 2.3 m90 in to 1.9 m75 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 5 to 5. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−35 days
The trend: from 108 to 73. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 48 to 36. 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−8%
Then
2.2 m85 in
Now
2.0 m78 in
- Snowfall in the village−8%
Then
2.2 m85 in
Now
2.0 m78 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
4
Now
5
- Days with a base at the summit−20 days
Then
98
Now
77
- Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.7°F
Then
-6°C21°F
Now
-5°C23°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
- 1950s1950/511.6 m62 in1951/521.9 m74 in1952/532.6 m101 in1953/542.5 m99 in1954/552.9 m115 in1955/563.1 m121 in1956/571.9 m74 in1957/582.6 m101 in1958/591.5 m59 in1959/601.9 m76 in
- 1960s1960/611.1 m44 in1961/622.2 m88 in1962/633.5 m139 in1963/641.4 m54 in1964/651.8 m71 in1965/662.1 m83 in1966/672.7 m106 in1967/682.3 m89 in1968/692.7 m107 in1969/702.9 m113 in
- 1970s1970/711.9 m73 in1971/721.9 m75 in1972/732.0 m78 in1973/742.6 m102 in1974/751.7 m67 in1975/761.7 m66 in1976/771.8 m71 in1977/781.9 m76 in1978/791.7 m65 in1979/802.4 m94 in
- 1980s1980/812.7 m107 in1981/823.0 m119 in1982/831.5 m60 in1983/843.1 m122 in1984/852.4 m95 in1985/862.5 m100 in1986/872.4 m95 in1987/881.7 m68 in1988/891.9 m73 in1989/901.1 m44 in
- 1990s1990/912.2 m88 in1991/921.3 m53 in1992/931.9 m75 in1993/942.2 m86 in1994/952.3 m89 in1995/962.8 m111 in1996/972.3 m91 in1997/981.7 m65 in1998/992.9 m113 in1999/002.2 m85 in
- 2000s2000/011.3 m53 in2001/022.0 m78 in2002/032.0 m77 in2003/042.1 m82 in2004/052.4 m93 in2005/062.8 m111 in2006/071.4 m56 in2007/082.1 m82 in2008/092.6 m101 in2009/102.6 m103 in
- 2010s2010/111.5 m59 in2011/122.1 m83 in2012/132.2 m87 in2013/141.3 m52 in2014/152.7 m107 in2015/161.2 m49 in2016/171.3 m50 in2017/182.7 m106 in2018/191.9 m73 in2019/201.8 m72 in
- 2020s2020/212.6 m102 in2021/222.2 m86 in2022/231.2 m49 in2023/241.2 m47 in2024/251.9 m74 in2025/261.5 m58 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