76 winters, day by day
Stevens Pass, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Stevens Pass, 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 9% of 736 resorts
+1.3°C+2.3°F
The trend: from -6°C21°F to -5°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−27%
The trend: from 8.5 m335 in to 6.2 m246 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 30 to 20. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 172 to 165. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−9 days
The trend: from 103 to 94. 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−16%
Then
8.3 m326 in
Now
6.9 m273 in
- Snowfall in the village−20%
Then
5.8 m227 in
Now
4.6 m182 in
- Powder days at the summit−5 days
Then
29
Now
23
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
170
Now
166
- Average temperature at the summit+0.8°C+1.4°F
Then
-6°C22°F
Now
-5°C23°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
- 1950s1950/518.1 m317 in1951/527.0 m275 in1952/538.7 m342 in1953/5411.2 m442 in1954/558.3 m328 in1955/5610.6 m417 in1956/577.6 m297 in1957/588.5 m334 in1958/599.6 m376 in1959/607.5 m294 in
- 1960s1960/619.2 m363 in1961/627.0 m277 in1962/635.8 m227 in1963/6410.2 m400 in1964/658.0 m315 in1965/667.9 m310 in1966/6710.0 m392 in1967/686.9 m273 in1968/698.5 m333 in1969/707.0 m277 in
- 1970s1970/7111.0 m434 in1971/7212.2 m480 in1972/735.7 m225 in1973/7410.9 m428 in1974/758.6 m339 in1975/769.1 m359 in1976/773.8 m150 in1977/786.9 m273 in1978/796.2 m244 in1979/806.4 m250 in
- 1980s1980/814.7 m183 in1981/828.9 m350 in1982/837.5 m294 in1983/846.9 m271 in1984/856.4 m250 in1985/865.0 m197 in1986/875.7 m226 in1987/887.1 m278 in1988/897.0 m277 in1989/907.1 m281 in
- 1990s1990/917.8 m308 in1991/925.3 m207 in1992/935.1 m201 in1993/945.7 m226 in1994/957.1 m280 in1995/967.1 m280 in1996/979.5 m374 in1997/986.1 m239 in1998/9910.3 m406 in1999/007.7 m304 in
- 2000s2000/014.6 m181 in2001/027.9 m313 in2002/036.0 m237 in2003/046.3 m246 in2004/053.8 m148 in2005/067.8 m308 in2006/077.4 m289 in2007/087.6 m299 in2008/096.8 m267 in2009/106.2 m244 in
- 2010s2010/118.1 m319 in2011/128.4 m331 in2012/137.6 m298 in2013/148.0 m314 in2014/154.0 m156 in2015/167.4 m291 in2016/177.4 m290 in2017/188.6 m337 in2018/195.5 m215 in2019/207.1 m280 in
- 2020s2020/218.0 m313 in2021/227.0 m274 in2022/236.2 m242 in2023/245.6 m221 in2024/256.1 m239 in2025/265.8 m228 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