76 winters, day by day
Strandafjellet, Norway. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Strandafjellet, Norway. 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 90% of 736 resorts
+3.0°C+5.4°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -7°C20°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+11%
The trend: from 5.2 m204 in to 5.8 m226 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+3 days
The trend: from 16 to 19. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 171 to 164. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+1 day
The trend: from 80 to 81. 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
5.1 m199 in
Now
5.5 m218 in
- Snowfall in the village+9%
Then
5.1 m199 in
Now
5.5 m218 in
- Powder days at the summit+3 days
Then
16
Now
19
- Days with a base at the summit−3 days
Then
168
Now
165
- Average temperature at the summit+1.9°C+3.4°F
Then
-9°C15°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
- 1950s1950/512.4 m96 in1951/526.3 m247 in1952/535.8 m229 in1953/544.7 m185 in1954/555.6 m220 in1955/565.3 m208 in1956/576.3 m249 in1957/585.1 m200 in1958/594.0 m159 in1959/602.5 m98 in
- 1960s1960/614.5 m178 in1961/626.2 m244 in1962/633.1 m123 in1963/644.8 m189 in1964/656.6 m259 in1965/663.2 m125 in1966/676.4 m252 in1967/687.3 m289 in1968/693.4 m134 in1969/704.2 m164 in
- 1970s1970/715.4 m214 in1971/724.9 m193 in1972/736.6 m260 in1973/745.9 m231 in1974/755.7 m225 in1975/769.5 m375 in1976/773.3 m128 in1977/783.6 m143 in1978/795.0 m197 in1979/804.3 m170 in
- 1980s1980/817.6 m298 in1981/825.5 m215 in1982/837.1 m281 in1983/846.2 m243 in1984/854.6 m180 in1985/864.4 m172 in1986/876.5 m257 in1987/884.4 m172 in1988/898.7 m344 in1989/908.1 m319 in
- 1990s1990/914.0 m157 in1991/927.7 m304 in1992/937.6 m301 in1993/944.3 m170 in1994/957.4 m291 in1995/963.0 m119 in1996/978.1 m317 in1997/984.6 m180 in1998/994.6 m182 in1999/008.4 m329 in
- 2000s2000/013.2 m125 in2001/026.6 m261 in2002/033.8 m151 in2003/044.5 m176 in2004/058.3 m328 in2005/065.0 m195 in2006/077.2 m284 in2007/087.0 m274 in2008/095.2 m206 in2009/103.1 m124 in
- 2010s2010/115.6 m219 in2011/127.2 m281 in2012/133.6 m141 in2013/144.8 m190 in2014/156.3 m249 in2015/164.6 m182 in2016/176.8 m268 in2017/184.9 m194 in2018/194.8 m188 in2019/207.9 m309 in
- 2020s2020/214.9 m193 in2021/227.2 m283 in2022/235.0 m198 in2023/244.6 m183 in2024/255.1 m200 in2025/263.1 m123 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