Semenic, Romania. 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 56% of 736 resorts
+2.2°C+4.0°F
The trend: from -4°C25°F to -2°C29°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−25%
The trend: from 1.3 m50 in to 95 cm37 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
−33 days
The trend: from 52 to 19. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 33 to 25. 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−13%
Then
1.2 m46 in
Now
1.0 m40 in
- Snowfall in the village−13%
Then
1.2 m46 in
Now
1.0 m40 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−19 days
Then
45
Now
25
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-3°C26°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
- 1950s1950/5176 cm30 in1951/521.6 m63 in1952/531.2 m49 in1953/541.1 m44 in1954/551.5 m59 in1955/561.3 m51 in1956/5787 cm34 in1957/581.4 m55 in1958/5972 cm28 in1959/6054 cm21 in
- 1960s1960/6137 cm15 in1961/622.1 m84 in1962/631.3 m50 in1963/641.4 m54 in1964/651.3 m49 in1965/661.5 m57 in1966/671.5 m57 in1967/682.0 m78 in1968/691.2 m48 in1969/701.5 m59 in
- 1970s1970/7192 cm36 in1971/7245 cm18 in1972/731.0 m41 in1973/7491 cm36 in1974/751.3 m49 in1975/761.4 m55 in1976/771.2 m45 in1977/781.2 m47 in1978/7995 cm37 in1979/801.1 m44 in
- 1980s1980/811.2 m47 in1981/821.6 m61 in1982/831.1 m44 in1983/841.3 m50 in1984/851.3 m49 in1985/861.4 m57 in1986/871.6 m63 in1987/8893 cm37 in1988/8990 cm35 in1989/9055 cm22 in
- 1990s1990/9172 cm28 in1991/921.2 m47 in1992/931.0 m40 in1993/9477 cm30 in1994/9580 cm31 in1995/961.6 m63 in1996/971.1 m44 in1997/9859 cm23 in1998/991.4 m56 in1999/001.7 m68 in
- 2000s2000/0167 cm26 in2001/0281 cm32 in2002/0398 cm39 in2003/041.2 m46 in2004/051.9 m74 in2005/061.6 m61 in2006/0771 cm28 in2007/0886 cm34 in2008/091.5 m59 in2009/101.4 m56 in
- 2010s2010/111.0 m40 in2011/121.4 m56 in2012/131.4 m55 in2013/1444 cm17 in2014/1582 cm32 in2015/1640 cm16 in2016/1776 cm30 in2017/181.2 m49 in2018/191.3 m51 in2019/2057 cm22 in
- 2020s2020/211.1 m42 in2021/221.1 m42 in2022/2388 cm35 in2023/2455 cm22 in2024/2565 cm26 in2025/2680 cm31 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