Straja, Romania. 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 70% of 736 resorts
+2.4°C+4.3°F
The trend: from -7°C20°F to -5°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−29%
The trend: from 1.5 m57 in to 1.0 m41 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 1 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−48 days
The trend: from 81 to 33. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−12 days
The trend: from 41 to 29. 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−18%
Then
1.3 m52 in
Now
1.1 m43 in
- Snowfall in the village−18%
Then
1.3 m52 in
Now
1.1 m43 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−28 days
Then
68
Now
40
- Average temperature at the summit+1.4°C+2.6°F
Then
-6°C21°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
- 1950s1950/511.0 m40 in1951/521.0 m39 in1952/531.5 m59 in1953/541.7 m67 in1954/552.0 m77 in1955/561.9 m76 in1956/571.0 m40 in1957/581.3 m51 in1958/5983 cm33 in1959/601.1 m43 in
- 1960s1960/6139 cm15 in1961/622.0 m78 in1962/631.7 m68 in1963/641.3 m51 in1964/651.2 m48 in1965/661.3 m53 in1966/671.3 m50 in1967/681.5 m60 in1968/692.2 m88 in1969/701.9 m74 in
- 1970s1970/711.0 m39 in1971/721.1 m45 in1972/731.2 m45 in1973/741.2 m45 in1974/751.1 m41 in1975/761.7 m65 in1976/771.1 m44 in1977/781.1 m42 in1978/7993 cm37 in1979/801.3 m53 in
- 1980s1980/811.6 m64 in1981/821.4 m57 in1982/8375 cm30 in1983/842.0 m77 in1984/851.8 m71 in1985/862.3 m89 in1986/871.6 m62 in1987/881.5 m58 in1988/8976 cm30 in1989/9062 cm24 in
- 1990s1990/911.5 m57 in1991/9279 cm31 in1992/931.0 m40 in1993/941.1 m42 in1994/951.1 m44 in1995/962.2 m85 in1996/971.4 m57 in1997/9882 cm32 in1998/991.2 m48 in1999/001.4 m54 in
- 2000s2000/0186 cm34 in2001/0256 cm22 in2002/031.6 m63 in2003/041.0 m40 in2004/051.4 m57 in2005/061.6 m64 in2006/0768 cm27 in2007/081.1 m43 in2008/0990 cm35 in2009/101.6 m63 in
- 2010s2010/111.2 m47 in2011/121.1 m42 in2012/131.3 m50 in2013/1475 cm30 in2014/151.2 m47 in2015/1679 cm31 in2016/1763 cm25 in2017/181.5 m61 in2018/191.6 m63 in2019/2090 cm35 in
- 2020s2020/211.4 m57 in2021/221.0 m41 in2022/2369 cm27 in2023/2464 cm25 in2024/2570 cm28 in2025/2697 cm38 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