SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Sheregesh, Russia. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Sheregesh
Painting of Sheregesh
Average winter
2.4 m96 in
Snowiest winter
4.1 m160 in
1965/66
Leanest winter
1.2 m48 in
2011/12
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 91% of 736 resorts

+3.1°C+5.5°F

The trend: from -17°C1°F to -14°C7°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-20°-4°-15°5°

Snowfall at the summit

−1%

The trend: from 2.5 m97 in to 2.4 m96 in. Point at a winter to read it.

1.0 m39 in2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

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

0246

Days with a base at the summit

−8 days

The trend: from 175 to 166. Point at a winter to read it.

140160180

Days with fresh snow at the summit

−1 day

The trend: from 66 to 65. Point at a winter to read it.

5060708090

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−3%

Then

2.5 m100 in

Now

2.5 m97 in

Snowfall in the village−6%

Then

2.3 m89 in

Now

2.1 m84 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

2

Now

2

Days with a base at the summit−6 days

Then

173

Now

167

Average temperature at the summit+1.9°C+3.4°F

Then

-17°C2°F

Now

-15°C6°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
23 cm9 in
3 November 1968
Snowiest winter
4.1 m160 in
1965/66
Leanest winter
1.2 m48 in
2011/12
Deepest snow on the ground
210 cm83 in
1 March 1966
Coldest night at the summit
-49°C-56°F
19 December 1966
Strongest gust at the summit
117 km/h73 mph
17 February 2004

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