Sugarloaf, 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 12% of 736 resorts
+1.4°C+2.5°F
The trend: from -10°C13°F to -9°C16°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−9%
The trend: from 2.1 m83 in to 1.9 m76 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 5 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−15 days
The trend: from 118 to 103. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 39 to 38. 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−5%
Then
2.1 m83 in
Now
2.0 m79 in
- Snowfall in the village−7%
Then
1.7 m67 in
Now
1.6 m62 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
5
Now
5
- Days with a base at the summit−9 days
Then
117
Now
108
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.8°F
Then
-10°C14°F
Now
-9°C15°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
- 1950s1950/512.1 m81 in1951/522.9 m113 in1952/531.9 m75 in1953/542.3 m92 in1954/552.2 m87 in1955/561.9 m73 in1956/571.3 m50 in1957/583.4 m133 in1958/592.0 m79 in1959/602.2 m86 in
- 1960s1960/612.1 m83 in1961/622.1 m82 in1962/632.6 m102 in1963/641.3 m50 in1964/651.6 m64 in1965/662.0 m80 in1966/671.5 m59 in1967/681.5 m60 in1968/693.1 m122 in1969/701.8 m72 in
- 1970s1970/712.2 m88 in1971/722.5 m100 in1972/732.4 m94 in1973/742.1 m82 in1974/752.6 m104 in1975/762.2 m85 in1976/772.1 m81 in1977/782.4 m96 in1978/792.2 m87 in1979/8097 cm38 in
- 1980s1980/811.3 m49 in1981/822.6 m101 in1982/831.7 m69 in1983/842.2 m86 in1984/851.7 m67 in1985/861.9 m73 in1986/872.3 m89 in1987/881.8 m70 in1988/891.6 m65 in1989/901.7 m68 in
- 1990s1990/911.8 m69 in1991/921.4 m56 in1992/932.0 m79 in1993/942.3 m90 in1994/951.6 m65 in1995/962.5 m97 in1996/972.7 m106 in1997/982.1 m84 in1998/991.8 m71 in1999/001.6 m65 in
- 2000s2000/012.5 m98 in2001/021.8 m70 in2002/031.7 m66 in2003/041.5 m57 in2004/052.1 m81 in2005/061.5 m58 in2006/072.6 m104 in2007/082.7 m108 in2008/092.0 m80 in2009/102.0 m77 in
- 2010s2010/112.6 m102 in2011/121.3 m51 in2012/132.0 m77 in2013/142.1 m81 in2014/152.2 m87 in2015/161.3 m51 in2016/172.5 m97 in2017/181.9 m76 in2018/192.9 m115 in2019/202.3 m89 in
- 2020s2020/211.7 m65 in2021/221.7 m66 in2022/232.1 m81 in2023/242.3 m91 in2024/251.7 m65 in2025/261.4 m54 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