Revelstoke, 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 15% of 736 resorts
+1.5°C+2.7°F
The trend: from -12°C11°F to -10°C13°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−14%
The trend: from 5.5 m215 in to 4.7 m185 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 13 to 10. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
+4 days
The trend: from 174 to 177. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base in the village
+3 days
The trend: from 173 to 176. 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−9%
Then
5.5 m215 in
Now
4.9 m195 in
- Snowfall in the village−36%
Then
2.3 m89 in
Now
1.5 m57 in
- Powder days at the summit−2 days
Then
13
Now
10
- Days with a base at the summit+2 days
Then
175
Now
177
- Days with a base in the village+2 days
Then
173
Now
175
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.8°F
Then
-12°C11°F
Now
-11°C13°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
- 1950s1950/515.2 m204 in1951/524.5 m178 in1952/535.6 m220 in1953/547.6 m298 in1954/555.3 m207 in1955/565.5 m215 in1956/574.6 m180 in1957/585.4 m211 in1958/596.2 m245 in1959/604.6 m181 in
- 1960s1960/615.3 m208 in1961/625.0 m198 in1962/635.3 m209 in1963/646.4 m251 in1964/655.2 m204 in1965/666.3 m247 in1966/677.8 m305 in1967/685.7 m223 in1968/695.4 m213 in1969/704.2 m166 in
- 1970s1970/716.4 m251 in1971/727.2 m283 in1972/735.3 m207 in1973/746.1 m241 in1974/755.3 m207 in1975/766.0 m238 in1976/774.1 m160 in1977/784.3 m169 in1978/794.1 m162 in1979/804.2 m163 in
- 1980s1980/814.8 m191 in1981/825.7 m226 in1982/834.6 m181 in1983/844.4 m173 in1984/854.2 m163 in1985/863.4 m135 in1986/873.8 m149 in1987/884.7 m185 in1988/894.5 m175 in1989/905.2 m204 in
- 1990s1990/915.6 m220 in1991/924.3 m168 in1992/933.4 m135 in1993/945.3 m210 in1994/954.6 m181 in1995/965.8 m230 in1996/975.5 m218 in1997/983.9 m154 in1998/996.9 m270 in1999/005.1 m201 in
- 2000s2000/013.2 m125 in2001/025.0 m196 in2002/034.6 m183 in2003/044.2 m164 in2004/054.1 m161 in2005/064.5 m176 in2006/075.9 m230 in2007/084.6 m182 in2008/094.4 m172 in2009/104.2 m166 in
- 2010s2010/115.6 m221 in2011/125.8 m227 in2012/135.5 m218 in2013/145.7 m226 in2014/154.6 m180 in2015/165.1 m199 in2016/175.0 m196 in2017/185.7 m224 in2018/194.2 m165 in2019/205.5 m218 in
- 2020s2020/214.7 m186 in2021/225.9 m232 in2022/234.2 m165 in2023/244.3 m169 in2024/254.3 m170 in2025/266.2 m243 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