76 winters, day by day
Snowshoe Mountain, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Snowshoe Mountain, 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 32% of 736 resorts
+1.9°C+3.4°F
The trend: from -3°C27°F to -1°C30°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−31%
The trend: from 1.8 m71 in to 1.3 m49 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 2 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 22 to 10. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−13 days
The trend: from 46 to 34. 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−21%
Then
1.7 m67 in
Now
1.3 m53 in
- Snowfall in the village−21%
Then
1.7 m67 in
Now
1.4 m53 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
2
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−9 days
Then
21
Now
12
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F
Then
-3°C27°F
Now
-1°C29°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
- 1950s1950/512.3 m91 in1951/521.2 m46 in1952/531.7 m65 in1953/541.4 m55 in1954/551.7 m66 in1955/561.6 m63 in1956/571.5 m59 in1957/582.2 m87 in1958/591.0 m41 in1959/602.2 m86 in
- 1960s1960/612.3 m89 in1961/621.6 m61 in1962/632.0 m78 in1963/642.3 m92 in1964/651.4 m54 in1965/661.5 m61 in1966/671.6 m62 in1967/681.6 m63 in1968/691.6 m61 in1969/702.1 m84 in
- 1970s1970/712.0 m80 in1971/721.8 m70 in1972/731.5 m58 in1973/741.2 m46 in1974/751.9 m74 in1975/761.2 m46 in1976/771.6 m63 in1977/782.0 m80 in1978/791.4 m56 in1979/801.6 m61 in
- 1980s1980/811.5 m57 in1981/821.8 m70 in1982/831.3 m50 in1983/841.8 m72 in1984/851.5 m60 in1985/861.5 m60 in1986/872.0 m78 in1987/881.3 m51 in1988/891.1 m42 in1989/901.7 m66 in
- 1990s1990/911.1 m42 in1991/921.1 m43 in1992/932.2 m85 in1993/942.2 m87 in1994/951.2 m47 in1995/962.3 m89 in1996/9798 cm39 in1997/982.3 m89 in1998/991.4 m56 in1999/0099 cm39 in
- 2000s2000/011.4 m56 in2001/0278 cm31 in2002/032.2 m85 in2003/041.6 m63 in2004/051.4 m56 in2005/061.4 m57 in2006/071.1 m45 in2007/081.1 m44 in2008/091.1 m43 in2009/102.0 m80 in
- 2010s2010/111.7 m65 in2011/1291 cm36 in2012/131.8 m70 in2013/141.8 m70 in2014/151.7 m67 in2015/161.1 m44 in2016/1787 cm34 in2017/181.3 m52 in2018/191.3 m49 in2019/2094 cm37 in
- 2020s2020/211.7 m65 in2021/221.1 m44 in2022/2359 cm23 in2023/241.2 m48 in2024/251.4 m55 in2025/261.1 m42 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