76 winters, day by day
Silver Mountain Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Silver Mountain Resort, 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 28% of 736 resorts
+1.8°C+3.3°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -6°C21°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−26%
The trend: from 3.4 m134 in to 2.5 m99 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 5 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−30 days
The trend: from 149 to 119. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−13 days
The trend: from 73 to 60. 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−14%
Then
3.3 m130 in
Now
2.9 m113 in
- Snowfall in the village−14%
Then
3.3 m130 in
Now
2.9 m113 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
5
Now
4
- Days with a base at the summit−17 days
Then
143
Now
127
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.1°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-6°C21°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
- 1950s1950/513.4 m135 in1951/523.5 m138 in1952/533.8 m149 in1953/544.4 m173 in1954/553.5 m139 in1955/564.2 m167 in1956/573.3 m129 in1957/583.4 m132 in1958/593.5 m137 in1959/602.9 m114 in
- 1960s1960/613.2 m125 in1961/623.2 m124 in1962/632.1 m81 in1963/644.7 m183 in1964/653.9 m153 in1965/663.2 m124 in1966/673.3 m131 in1967/682.1 m82 in1968/693.2 m128 in1969/702.8 m111 in
- 1970s1970/714.1 m159 in1971/724.5 m176 in1972/731.7 m68 in1973/744.6 m181 in1974/753.9 m152 in1975/763.8 m148 in1976/771.5 m60 in1977/782.8 m111 in1978/792.9 m116 in1979/802.1 m84 in
- 1980s1980/811.6 m61 in1981/823.1 m122 in1982/832.3 m92 in1983/842.7 m106 in1984/853.2 m127 in1985/862.2 m88 in1986/872.1 m83 in1987/882.1 m81 in1988/893.4 m133 in1989/903.0 m119 in
- 1990s1990/912.5 m96 in1991/921.9 m74 in1992/932.6 m102 in1993/941.9 m74 in1994/952.5 m99 in1995/962.7 m107 in1996/974.9 m192 in1997/982.3 m89 in1998/993.9 m155 in1999/003.2 m126 in
- 2000s2000/012.2 m87 in2001/023.7 m144 in2002/032.1 m84 in2003/042.7 m107 in2004/051.3 m52 in2005/063.0 m119 in2006/072.8 m108 in2007/084.1 m162 in2008/093.2 m128 in2009/101.9 m74 in
- 2010s2010/113.9 m153 in2011/123.1 m122 in2012/132.6 m102 in2013/143.0 m117 in2014/151.6 m62 in2015/162.6 m103 in2016/173.0 m118 in2017/183.7 m144 in2018/192.7 m107 in2019/202.7 m104 in
- 2020s2020/212.9 m113 in2021/223.0 m116 in2022/233.0 m118 in2023/242.0 m79 in2024/252.8 m110 in2025/262.0 m79 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