76 winters, day by day
Sugarbush Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Sugarbush 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 27% of 736 resorts
+1.8°C+3.3°F
The trend: from -9°C15°F to -7°C19°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−17%
The trend: from 1.8 m71 in to 1.5 m59 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 3 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−52 days
The trend: from 98 to 46. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 42 to 35. 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−11%
Then
1.8 m70 in
Now
1.6 m63 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−32 days
Then
94
Now
62
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°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
- 1950s1950/511.8 m70 in1951/522.0 m79 in1952/531.8 m69 in1953/541.9 m76 in1954/551.8 m71 in1955/561.9 m75 in1956/571.3 m50 in1957/582.4 m96 in1958/592.0 m80 in1959/601.7 m68 in
- 1960s1960/611.4 m56 in1961/621.7 m67 in1962/632.0 m77 in1963/641.2 m46 in1964/651.3 m49 in1965/661.6 m61 in1966/671.3 m50 in1967/681.4 m56 in1968/692.3 m90 in1969/701.9 m75 in
- 1970s1970/712.3 m91 in1971/722.2 m88 in1972/732.0 m77 in1973/741.9 m74 in1974/752.0 m79 in1975/762.3 m89 in1976/771.7 m68 in1977/781.9 m75 in1978/791.9 m74 in1979/8082 cm32 in
- 1980s1980/811.2 m48 in1981/821.7 m67 in1982/831.2 m47 in1983/841.9 m74 in1984/851.7 m67 in1985/861.5 m61 in1986/871.6 m63 in1987/881.2 m48 in1988/891.1 m44 in1989/901.5 m60 in
- 1990s1990/911.2 m45 in1991/921.2 m46 in1992/931.9 m74 in1993/941.9 m74 in1994/951.2 m46 in1995/961.8 m70 in1996/972.1 m83 in1997/981.9 m74 in1998/991.5 m58 in1999/001.7 m65 in
- 2000s2000/012.0 m80 in2001/021.5 m57 in2002/031.7 m67 in2003/041.5 m59 in2004/051.3 m49 in2005/061.1 m43 in2006/072.0 m78 in2007/082.2 m87 in2008/091.5 m59 in2009/101.4 m54 in
- 2010s2010/112.1 m81 in2011/1299 cm39 in2012/131.2 m47 in2013/141.6 m63 in2014/151.8 m71 in2015/1679 cm31 in2016/171.9 m74 in2017/181.6 m63 in2018/192.0 m80 in2019/201.6 m63 in
- 2020s2020/211.3 m52 in2021/221.5 m57 in2022/231.7 m66 in2023/241.7 m67 in2024/251.5 m60 in2025/261.3 m53 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