76 winters, day by day
Silver Star Mountain Resort, Canada. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Silver Star Mountain Resort, Canada. 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 87% of 736 resorts
+2.9°C+5.2°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -7°C19°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−28%
The trend: from 1.9 m75 in to 1.4 m54 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 0 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−44 days
The trend: from 152 to 108. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−13 days
The trend: from 60 to 47. 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−18%
Then
1.9 m73 in
Now
1.5 m60 in
- Snowfall in the village−19%
Then
1.8 m71 in
Now
1.5 m57 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit−28 days
Then
143
Now
115
- Average temperature at the summit+1.8°C+3.3°F
Then
-10°C15°F
Now
-8°C18°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
- 1950s1950/512.0 m78 in1951/522.0 m77 in1952/532.0 m79 in1953/542.1 m83 in1954/551.5 m59 in1955/562.2 m87 in1956/571.7 m65 in1957/581.8 m71 in1958/591.9 m73 in1959/601.7 m67 in
- 1960s1960/611.8 m70 in1961/621.8 m72 in1962/631.5 m58 in1963/642.3 m92 in1964/651.8 m70 in1965/662.1 m81 in1966/672.2 m85 in1967/681.8 m69 in1968/692.1 m81 in1969/701.3 m51 in
- 1970s1970/712.4 m93 in1971/722.4 m93 in1972/731.4 m57 in1973/742.3 m92 in1974/752.0 m80 in1975/762.1 m81 in1976/771.1 m43 in1977/782.0 m77 in1978/791.5 m60 in1979/801.3 m50 in
- 1980s1980/811.2 m49 in1981/822.0 m77 in1982/831.9 m74 in1983/841.4 m54 in1984/851.5 m57 in1985/861.1 m44 in1986/871.2 m46 in1987/881.2 m48 in1988/891.3 m51 in1989/901.4 m56 in
- 1990s1990/911.8 m69 in1991/921.2 m48 in1992/931.5 m58 in1993/941.6 m63 in1994/951.5 m59 in1995/961.8 m72 in1996/972.3 m91 in1997/981.3 m49 in1998/992.0 m80 in1999/001.7 m67 in
- 2000s2000/011.1 m43 in2001/021.6 m63 in2002/031.2 m48 in2003/041.6 m61 in2004/051.3 m51 in2005/061.6 m64 in2006/071.6 m63 in2007/081.4 m55 in2008/091.4 m53 in2009/1089 cm35 in
- 2010s2010/111.8 m71 in2011/121.7 m65 in2012/131.7 m68 in2013/141.7 m66 in2014/151.2 m49 in2015/161.5 m59 in2016/171.5 m57 in2017/182.5 m99 in2018/191.1 m43 in2019/201.6 m65 in
- 2020s2020/211.5 m59 in2021/221.6 m61 in2022/231.7 m66 in2023/241.3 m50 in2024/251.3 m50 in2025/261.3 m52 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