76 winters, day by day
Snowbasin Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Snowbasin 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 45% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.7°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−23%
The trend: from 2.6 m102 in to 2.0 m79 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 4 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−52 days
The trend: from 100 to 48. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 61 to 49. 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−15%
Then
2.5 m97 in
Now
2.1 m83 in
- Snowfall in the village−17%
Then
2.1 m84 in
Now
1.8 m69 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
3
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−30 days
Then
90
Now
59
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F
Then
-10°C15°F
Now
-8°C17°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
- 1950s1950/513.0 m116 in1951/523.7 m144 in1952/533.0 m119 in1953/542.1 m81 in1954/552.1 m82 in1955/562.6 m104 in1956/572.3 m89 in1957/582.8 m110 in1958/592.1 m81 in1959/602.0 m78 in
- 1960s1960/611.7 m67 in1961/622.7 m108 in1962/632.1 m82 in1963/642.4 m93 in1964/653.0 m119 in1965/661.7 m67 in1966/672.8 m109 in1967/682.4 m93 in1968/692.8 m112 in1969/702.3 m89 in
- 1970s1970/712.7 m106 in1971/722.5 m98 in1972/732.6 m101 in1973/742.9 m114 in1974/752.7 m106 in1975/762.3 m90 in1976/7798 cm39 in1977/782.9 m113 in1978/792.6 m103 in1979/802.7 m106 in
- 1980s1980/811.6 m63 in1981/823.0 m118 in1982/833.2 m126 in1983/843.9 m153 in1984/852.4 m96 in1985/863.1 m121 in1986/871.5 m59 in1987/881.9 m74 in1988/892.6 m103 in1989/901.4 m54 in
- 1990s1990/912.2 m87 in1991/921.3 m50 in1992/932.8 m108 in1993/941.7 m66 in1994/952.4 m94 in1995/962.5 m98 in1996/972.9 m112 in1997/982.7 m105 in1998/992.1 m81 in1999/001.7 m69 in
- 2000s2000/011.7 m65 in2001/022.0 m79 in2002/031.5 m58 in2003/042.3 m89 in2004/052.3 m91 in2005/062.6 m104 in2006/071.6 m61 in2007/082.4 m93 in2008/092.6 m102 in2009/101.7 m67 in
- 2010s2010/113.2 m126 in2011/121.5 m60 in2012/131.6 m64 in2013/142.1 m81 in2014/151.3 m53 in2015/162.1 m84 in2016/172.9 m115 in2017/181.3 m51 in2018/192.5 m98 in2019/202.2 m86 in
- 2020s2020/211.7 m66 in2021/221.7 m67 in2022/233.6 m143 in2023/242.4 m96 in2024/252.0 m80 in2025/261.1 m44 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