76 winters, day by day
Station touristique du Massif du Sud, Canada. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Station touristique du Massif du Sud, 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 7% of 736 resorts
+1.1°C+1.9°F
The trend: from -9°C15°F to -8°C17°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+3%
The trend: from 2.4 m95 in to 2.5 m98 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 4 to 5. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−4 days
The trend: from 130 to 125. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+2 days
The trend: from 56 to 57. 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
2.4 m96 in
Now
2.5 m98 in
- Snowfall in the village+2%
Then
2.4 m96 in
Now
2.5 m99 in
- Powder days at the summit+1 day
Then
4
Now
5
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
129
Now
126
- Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.5°F
Then
-9°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
- 1950s1950/512.8 m110 in1951/523.0 m116 in1952/532.1 m83 in1953/542.1 m83 in1954/552.9 m112 in1955/562.0 m80 in1956/571.6 m64 in1957/582.7 m106 in1958/592.5 m99 in1959/602.6 m104 in
- 1960s1960/612.9 m114 in1961/622.3 m92 in1962/632.5 m99 in1963/641.9 m74 in1964/651.6 m64 in1965/662.6 m102 in1966/672.1 m83 in1967/681.6 m63 in1968/692.7 m105 in1969/702.0 m77 in
- 1970s1970/712.4 m94 in1971/722.9 m112 in1972/732.6 m103 in1973/742.9 m113 in1974/753.2 m126 in1975/762.8 m109 in1976/772.8 m109 in1977/782.6 m101 in1978/793.0 m117 in1979/801.5 m58 in
- 1980s1980/812.2 m85 in1981/823.1 m121 in1982/832.3 m89 in1983/842.8 m112 in1984/852.5 m97 in1985/862.3 m89 in1986/872.2 m85 in1987/882.2 m85 in1988/892.4 m95 in1989/902.6 m104 in
- 1990s1990/912.6 m104 in1991/922.0 m77 in1992/932.2 m87 in1993/942.9 m113 in1994/951.9 m73 in1995/962.5 m97 in1996/973.0 m117 in1997/982.5 m100 in1998/992.5 m97 in1999/002.5 m96 in
- 2000s2000/012.5 m100 in2001/022.2 m86 in2002/032.1 m82 in2003/042.0 m79 in2004/052.6 m103 in2005/062.5 m100 in2006/072.6 m103 in2007/084.1 m163 in2008/092.3 m89 in2009/102.3 m91 in
- 2010s2010/112.9 m113 in2011/121.9 m73 in2012/132.2 m87 in2013/142.6 m101 in2014/152.2 m88 in2015/162.1 m83 in2016/173.0 m116 in2017/182.7 m108 in2018/193.2 m126 in2019/202.6 m104 in
- 2020s2020/212.1 m82 in2021/222.6 m103 in2022/232.6 m104 in2023/242.3 m90 in2024/252.2 m88 in2025/262.0 m80 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