Riksgränsen, Norway. 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 83% of 736 resorts
+2.8°C+5.0°F
The trend: from -12°C11°F to -9°C16°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+21%
The trend: from 3.5 m137 in to 4.2 m165 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+4 days
The trend: from 6 to 9. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
+2 days
The trend: from 177 to 179. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+10 days
The trend: from 76 to 86. 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+11%
Then
3.6 m142 in
Now
4.0 m157 in
- Snowfall in the village+11%
Then
3.0 m119 in
Now
3.3 m131 in
- Powder days at the summit+2 days
Then
6
Now
9
- Days with a base at the summit+1 day
Then
177
Now
178
- Average temperature at the summit+1.6°C+2.9°F
Then
-11°C12°F
Now
-10°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
- 1950s1950/512.4 m96 in1951/523.3 m130 in1952/535.5 m218 in1953/543.4 m132 in1954/552.8 m112 in1955/563.0 m118 in1956/573.1 m123 in1957/583.4 m134 in1958/595.5 m216 in1959/602.3 m91 in
- 1960s1960/613.6 m140 in1961/623.7 m145 in1962/634.4 m175 in1963/645.0 m195 in1964/654.4 m174 in1965/661.8 m69 in1966/673.0 m119 in1967/683.8 m150 in1968/693.3 m130 in1969/702.0 m78 in
- 1970s1970/714.2 m164 in1971/724.1 m161 in1972/735.9 m230 in1973/744.2 m163 in1974/754.3 m170 in1975/763.8 m150 in1976/772.9 m115 in1977/783.4 m132 in1978/792.8 m112 in1979/802.7 m106 in
- 1980s1980/814.5 m175 in1981/823.8 m150 in1982/833.5 m136 in1983/843.7 m147 in1984/852.2 m87 in1985/862.9 m115 in1986/873.0 m119 in1987/883.4 m133 in1988/895.0 m196 in1989/905.3 m207 in
- 1990s1990/914.2 m165 in1991/925.6 m220 in1992/936.0 m236 in1993/942.3 m89 in1994/953.7 m144 in1995/964.0 m156 in1996/975.5 m217 in1997/983.3 m129 in1998/992.8 m109 in1999/005.1 m200 in
- 2000s2000/012.6 m101 in2001/024.9 m194 in2002/034.1 m160 in2003/043.2 m125 in2004/053.8 m150 in2005/063.3 m128 in2006/074.2 m163 in2007/083.3 m130 in2008/093.5 m139 in2009/102.7 m108 in
- 2010s2010/114.0 m158 in2011/123.7 m147 in2012/133.4 m133 in2013/144.8 m188 in2014/154.5 m178 in2015/163.1 m124 in2016/175.4 m212 in2017/182.0 m77 in2018/195.0 m197 in2019/205.6 m219 in
- 2020s2020/214.5 m175 in2021/224.7 m186 in2022/233.9 m154 in2023/243.1 m122 in2024/256.7 m264 in2025/263.3 m131 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