76 winters, day by day
Гірськолижний комплекс "Плай", Ukraine. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Гірськолижний комплекс "Плай", Ukraine. 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 80% of 736 resorts
+2.7°C+4.8°F
The trend: from -5°C24°F to -2°C29°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−9%
The trend: from 1.8 m72 in to 1.7 m65 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−45 days
The trend: from 101 to 56. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 53 to 47. 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−3%
Then
1.8 m70 in
Now
1.7 m67 in
- Snowfall in the village−3%
Then
1.8 m71 in
Now
1.7 m69 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−28 days
Then
93
Now
65
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.7°F
Then
-4°C25°F
Now
-2°C28°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
- 1950s1950/511.3 m50 in1951/522.3 m91 in1952/531.9 m73 in1953/541.0 m39 in1954/552.0 m79 in1955/561.9 m76 in1956/571.7 m65 in1957/582.3 m89 in1958/591.1 m44 in1959/601.0 m41 in
- 1960s1960/611.0 m41 in1961/622.7 m105 in1962/631.7 m65 in1963/641.8 m72 in1964/652.3 m89 in1965/662.2 m88 in1966/672.5 m96 in1967/682.1 m83 in1968/691.6 m63 in1969/702.0 m77 in
- 1970s1970/711.5 m61 in1971/721.4 m56 in1972/731.6 m63 in1973/741.5 m59 in1974/751.6 m63 in1975/762.5 m100 in1976/771.7 m66 in1977/781.8 m70 in1978/791.7 m68 in1979/801.6 m62 in
- 1980s1980/812.2 m87 in1981/822.4 m96 in1982/831.6 m64 in1983/841.5 m57 in1984/851.7 m67 in1985/861.8 m72 in1986/871.6 m62 in1987/882.1 m81 in1988/891.7 m65 in1989/901.3 m51 in
- 1990s1990/911.4 m55 in1991/921.8 m70 in1992/931.6 m62 in1993/941.2 m48 in1994/952.0 m79 in1995/962.2 m88 in1996/972.1 m84 in1997/981.4 m57 in1998/992.4 m93 in1999/002.8 m109 in
- 2000s2000/011.4 m54 in2001/022.1 m84 in2002/031.7 m67 in2003/041.7 m68 in2004/052.1 m81 in2005/061.9 m74 in2006/071.6 m63 in2007/081.5 m59 in2008/091.9 m75 in2009/101.3 m50 in
- 2010s2010/111.2 m47 in2011/121.9 m73 in2012/132.0 m80 in2013/1468 cm27 in2014/151.4 m56 in2015/161.1 m44 in2016/171.9 m76 in2017/182.3 m92 in2018/191.8 m71 in2019/201.6 m62 in
- 2020s2020/212.1 m83 in2021/222.1 m81 in2022/231.5 m60 in2023/241.6 m64 in2024/251.0 m41 in2025/261.2 m46 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