76 winters, day by day
Station touristique Stoneham, Canada. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Station touristique Stoneham, 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+2.0°F
The trend: from -9°C16°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+1%
The trend: from 2.5 m98 in to 2.5 m98 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 4 to 5. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 139 to 134. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+2 days
The trend: from 54 to 56. 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±0
Then
2.5 m99 in
Now
2.5 m99 in
- Snowfall in the village±0
Then
2.6 m101 in
Now
2.6 m101 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
5
Now
5
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
140
Now
135
- Average temperature at the summit+0.9°C+1.6°F
Then
-9°C16°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
- 1950s1950/513.2 m127 in1951/523.3 m130 in1952/532.3 m92 in1953/542.3 m90 in1954/552.8 m110 in1955/562.0 m77 in1956/571.8 m72 in1957/582.5 m97 in1958/592.5 m97 in1959/602.5 m99 in
- 1960s1960/612.7 m104 in1961/622.2 m86 in1962/632.1 m83 in1963/641.9 m73 in1964/652.0 m79 in1965/662.6 m102 in1966/672.5 m98 in1967/681.9 m75 in1968/692.8 m109 in1969/702.1 m81 in
- 1970s1970/712.6 m102 in1971/723.1 m122 in1972/732.6 m104 in1973/743.4 m135 in1974/752.7 m106 in1975/762.9 m113 in1976/772.8 m109 in1977/782.8 m108 in1978/792.9 m113 in1979/801.7 m67 in
- 1980s1980/812.2 m87 in1981/822.8 m111 in1982/832.3 m91 in1983/842.7 m107 in1984/852.6 m101 in1985/862.5 m97 in1986/871.9 m76 in1987/882.2 m85 in1988/892.5 m99 in1989/902.6 m104 in
- 1990s1990/912.9 m112 in1991/922.1 m82 in1992/932.2 m87 in1993/942.8 m111 in1994/951.9 m75 in1995/962.6 m100 in1996/973.4 m134 in1997/982.3 m90 in1998/992.9 m114 in1999/002.1 m83 in
- 2000s2000/012.0 m80 in2001/022.3 m91 in2002/032.0 m77 in2003/041.9 m76 in2004/052.5 m100 in2005/062.6 m104 in2006/072.5 m96 in2007/083.7 m145 in2008/092.6 m103 in2009/101.8 m72 in
- 2010s2010/112.6 m102 in2011/122.1 m84 in2012/132.1 m81 in2013/142.5 m99 in2014/152.2 m87 in2015/162.7 m104 in2016/173.1 m123 in2017/182.9 m112 in2018/193.3 m128 in2019/202.8 m111 in
- 2020s2020/212.0 m79 in2021/222.9 m114 in2022/232.7 m105 in2023/242.1 m83 in2024/252.2 m87 in2025/262.3 m92 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