76 winters, day by day
Saddleback Mountain, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Saddleback Mountain, United States. 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 11% of 736 resorts
+1.4°C+2.4°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -9°C16°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−9%
The trend: from 2.2 m87 in to 2.0 m80 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 5 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−16 days
The trend: from 121 to 105. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 42 to 39. 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−5%
Then
2.2 m87 in
Now
2.1 m83 in
- Snowfall in the village−5%
Then
2.2 m87 in
Now
2.1 m83 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
5
Now
5
- Days with a base at the summit−10 days
Then
120
Now
110
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.8°F
Then
-10°C14°F
Now
-9°C16°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
- 1950s1950/512.3 m92 in1951/523.0 m116 in1952/532.2 m85 in1953/542.5 m98 in1954/552.3 m91 in1955/561.9 m74 in1956/571.3 m50 in1957/583.5 m136 in1958/592.1 m83 in1959/602.3 m89 in
- 1960s1960/612.2 m86 in1961/622.2 m85 in1962/632.7 m105 in1963/641.4 m54 in1964/651.7 m66 in1965/662.1 m83 in1966/671.5 m58 in1967/681.6 m63 in1968/693.2 m126 in1969/701.9 m76 in
- 1970s1970/712.3 m90 in1971/722.7 m106 in1972/732.5 m98 in1973/742.3 m91 in1974/752.7 m106 in1975/762.3 m90 in1976/772.2 m85 in1977/782.5 m99 in1978/792.3 m92 in1979/801.1 m41 in
- 1980s1980/811.3 m52 in1981/822.6 m102 in1982/831.9 m73 in1983/842.3 m91 in1984/851.9 m73 in1985/861.9 m74 in1986/872.3 m92 in1987/881.9 m73 in1988/891.8 m71 in1989/901.8 m71 in
- 1990s1990/911.9 m75 in1991/921.5 m59 in1992/932.1 m81 in1993/942.3 m92 in1994/951.6 m64 in1995/962.6 m102 in1996/972.8 m112 in1997/982.2 m85 in1998/992.0 m78 in1999/001.8 m70 in
- 2000s2000/012.6 m101 in2001/022.0 m78 in2002/031.8 m70 in2003/041.5 m60 in2004/052.2 m85 in2005/061.5 m61 in2006/072.7 m106 in2007/082.8 m110 in2008/092.1 m84 in2009/102.1 m84 in
- 2010s2010/112.7 m107 in2011/121.4 m54 in2012/132.0 m78 in2013/142.1 m83 in2014/152.2 m88 in2015/161.3 m53 in2016/172.5 m97 in2017/182.1 m82 in2018/192.9 m115 in2019/202.4 m94 in
- 2020s2020/211.8 m71 in2021/221.8 m70 in2022/232.2 m85 in2023/242.5 m97 in2024/251.8 m70 in2025/261.5 m57 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