76 winters, day by day
Sunrise Park Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Sunrise Park 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 68% of 736 resorts
+2.4°C+4.3°F
The trend: from -5°C23°F to -2°C28°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−22%
The trend: from 1.5 m59 in to 1.2 m46 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 2 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−25 days
The trend: from 49 to 24. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 33 to 27. 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
1.4 m55 in
Now
1.1 m45 in
- Snowfall in the village−18%
Then
1.4 m55 in
Now
1.1 m45 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
2
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−19 days
Then
39
Now
21
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.7°F
Then
-4°C24°F
Now
-3°C27°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
- 1950s1950/511.1 m43 in1951/522.4 m94 in1952/531.3 m53 in1953/5485 cm33 in1954/5571 cm28 in1955/561.1 m45 in1956/571.0 m39 in1957/581.5 m60 in1958/5968 cm27 in1959/601.5 m59 in
- 1960s1960/611.3 m49 in1961/622.0 m78 in1962/631.1 m44 in1963/641.1 m42 in1964/651.8 m72 in1965/661.3 m50 in1966/6761 cm24 in1967/682.3 m89 in1968/691.4 m54 in1969/701.2 m47 in
- 1970s1970/7172 cm28 in1971/7268 cm27 in1972/732.4 m96 in1973/741.3 m51 in1974/751.7 m68 in1975/761.6 m61 in1976/771.1 m45 in1977/781.6 m62 in1978/792.4 m93 in1979/802.3 m89 in
- 1980s1980/811.2 m48 in1981/821.6 m62 in1982/832.7 m108 in1983/841.6 m61 in1984/852.1 m81 in1985/861.4 m55 in1986/871.9 m75 in1987/881.5 m59 in1988/891.1 m44 in1989/9098 cm39 in
- 1990s1990/911.9 m75 in1991/921.7 m66 in1992/932.2 m85 in1993/941.2 m46 in1994/951.3 m53 in1995/9680 cm31 in1996/971.6 m61 in1997/981.9 m76 in1998/9999 cm39 in1999/0066 cm26 in
- 2000s2000/011.3 m51 in2001/0266 cm26 in2002/031.1 m44 in2003/041.1 m44 in2004/051.8 m70 in2005/0667 cm26 in2006/0783 cm33 in2007/081.5 m57 in2008/091.3 m52 in2009/101.9 m76 in
- 2010s2010/1182 cm32 in2011/121.1 m42 in2012/131.2 m46 in2013/1467 cm26 in2014/1573 cm29 in2015/161.0 m41 in2016/171.4 m54 in2017/1863 cm25 in2018/191.5 m58 in2019/201.2 m49 in
- 2020s2020/211.1 m42 in2021/2292 cm36 in2022/231.6 m63 in2023/241.9 m74 in2024/2569 cm27 in2025/2656 cm22 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