76 winters, day by day
Steamboat Ski Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Steamboat Ski 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 22% of 736 resorts
+1.7°C+3.0°F
The trend: from -12°C11°F to -10°C14°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−13%
The trend: from 2.8 m111 in to 2.5 m98 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 2 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 156 to 149. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−8 days
The trend: from 73 to 65. 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−9%
Then
2.8 m108 in
Now
2.5 m99 in
- Snowfall in the village−13%
Then
2.1 m84 in
Now
1.9 m73 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
2
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
153
Now
150
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.9°F
Then
-11°C12°F
Now
-10°C13°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 m125 in1951/523.5 m136 in1952/532.7 m107 in1953/542.3 m91 in1954/552.1 m81 in1955/563.3 m131 in1956/573.5 m138 in1957/582.8 m108 in1958/592.9 m114 in1959/602.2 m88 in
- 1960s1960/612.4 m93 in1961/623.0 m118 in1962/632.3 m89 in1963/642.4 m95 in1964/653.2 m124 in1965/661.9 m74 in1966/672.7 m106 in1967/682.8 m111 in1968/692.5 m100 in1969/702.7 m108 in
- 1970s1970/713.1 m124 in1971/722.5 m100 in1972/732.4 m96 in1973/743.4 m134 in1974/753.0 m120 in1975/762.6 m102 in1976/771.5 m58 in1977/783.3 m129 in1978/793.2 m127 in1979/803.3 m128 in
- 1980s1980/811.6 m62 in1981/823.1 m124 in1982/833.0 m119 in1983/843.9 m155 in1984/852.9 m112 in1985/863.2 m127 in1986/872.0 m80 in1987/882.7 m104 in1988/892.8 m112 in1989/902.5 m100 in
- 1990s1990/912.7 m107 in1991/922.1 m82 in1992/933.5 m137 in1993/942.2 m87 in1994/952.8 m109 in1995/963.1 m121 in1996/973.1 m122 in1997/982.3 m92 in1998/992.7 m104 in1999/002.4 m93 in
- 2000s2000/012.3 m92 in2001/021.7 m68 in2002/032.5 m97 in2003/042.3 m92 in2004/052.2 m85 in2005/062.8 m109 in2006/071.9 m76 in2007/082.8 m109 in2008/092.9 m116 in2009/102.4 m94 in
- 2010s2010/113.6 m142 in2011/121.7 m68 in2012/132.3 m89 in2013/142.9 m116 in2014/152.0 m78 in2015/162.8 m111 in2016/173.0 m119 in2017/182.4 m94 in2018/193.0 m118 in2019/202.6 m102 in
- 2020s2020/212.1 m84 in2021/222.5 m96 in2022/233.3 m130 in2023/242.7 m105 in2024/252.3 m90 in2025/261.6 m63 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