76 winters, day by day
Ski Land (Mt Aurora), United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Ski Land (Mt Aurora), 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 93% of 736 resorts
+3.1°C+5.6°F
The trend: from -18°C-1°F to -15°C5°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+14%
The trend: from 60 cm24 in to 68 cm27 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 0 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
+9 days
The trend: from 103 to 112. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+2 days
The trend: from 20 to 22. 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−3%
Then
64.167 cm25 in
Now
62.467 cm25 in
- Snowfall in the village−3%
Then
64.2 cm25 in
Now
62.5 cm25 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit−9 days
Then
111
Now
102
- Average temperature at the summit+2.0°C+3.6°F
Then
-18°C0°F
Now
-16°C4°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
- 1950s1950/5174 cm29 in1951/5278 cm31 in1952/5327 cm11 in1953/5434 cm13 in1954/5565 cm26 in1955/5685 cm33 in1956/5790 cm35 in1957/5843 cm17 in1958/5945 cm18 in1959/6050 cm20 in
- 1960s1960/6134 cm13 in1961/6286 cm34 in1962/631.0 m41 in1963/6446 cm18 in1964/6549 cm19 in1965/6677 cm30 in1966/671.2 m46 in1967/6892 cm36 in1968/6955 cm22 in1969/7037 cm15 in
- 1970s1970/711.2 m48 in1971/7288 cm35 in1972/7350 cm20 in1973/7446 cm18 in1974/7565 cm26 in1975/7650 cm20 in1976/7753 cm21 in1977/7832 cm13 in1978/7981 cm32 in1979/8051 cm20 in
- 1980s1980/8146 cm18 in1981/8251 cm20 in1982/8344 cm17 in1983/8436 cm14 in1984/851.0 m40 in1985/8639 cm15 in1986/8746 cm18 in1987/8834 cm13 in1988/8962 cm24 in1989/9081 cm32 in
- 1990s1990/911.6 m62 in1991/9283 cm33 in1992/931.1 m41 in1993/9464 cm25 in1994/9566 cm26 in1995/9658 cm23 in1996/9732 cm13 in1997/9824 cm9 in1998/9933 cm13 in1999/0078 cm31 in
- 2000s2000/0147 cm19 in2001/0260 cm24 in2002/0333 cm13 in2003/0462 cm24 in2004/0566 cm26 in2005/0658 cm23 in2006/0726 cm10 in2007/0847 cm19 in2008/0954 cm21 in2009/1023 cm9 in
- 2010s2010/1169 cm27 in2011/1265 cm26 in2012/1369 cm27 in2013/1466 cm26 in2014/1544 cm17 in2015/1641 cm16 in2016/1769 cm27 in2017/1893 cm37 in2018/1967 cm26 in2019/201.2 m46 in
- 2020s2020/2189 cm35 in2021/221.2 m45 in2022/2393 cm37 in2023/2463 cm25 in2024/2581 cm32 in2025/2690 cm35 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