SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Seven Springs Mountain Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Seven Springs Mountain Resort
Painting of Seven Springs Mountain Resort
Average winter
1.4 m54 in
Snowiest winter
2.5 m100 in
1960/61
Leanest winter
58 cm23 in
2001/02
Powder days a winter
2

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 23% of 736 resorts

+1.7°C+3.1°F

The trend: from -1°C30°F to 0°C33°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-2°28°0°32°2°36°

Snowfall at the summit

−26%

The trend: from 1.6 m62 in to 1.2 m46 in. Point at a winter to read it.

50 cm20 in1.0 m39 in1.5 m59 in2.0 m79 in2.5 m98 in

Powder days at the summit

−1 day

The trend: from 2 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.

0246

Days with a base at the summit

−15 days

The trend: from 22 to 7. Point at a winter to read it.

020406080

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−10 days

The trend: from 42 to 33. Point at a winter to read it.

2030405060

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−20%

Then

1.5 m59 in

Now

1.2 m48 in

Snowfall in the village−20%

Then

1.6 m62 in

Now

1.3 m49 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

2

Now

1

Days with a base at the summit−12 days

Then

21

Now

9

Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.0°F

Then

-1°C30°F

Now

0°C32°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

Most snow in a day
43 cm17 in
13 March 1993
Snowiest winter
2.5 m100 in
1960/61
Leanest winter
58 cm23 in
2001/02
Deepest snow on the ground
98 cm39 in
9 February 1961
Coldest night at the summit
-34°C-29°F
19 January 1994
Strongest gust at the summit
122 km/h76 mph
25 February 1956

All winters

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