76 winters, day by day
Taos Ski Valley, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Taos Ski Valley, 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 67% of 736 resorts
+2.4°C+4.2°F
The trend: from -9°C16°F to -7°C20°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−10%
The trend: from 1.2 m49 in to 1.1 m44 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−24 days
The trend: from 58 to 34. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 36 to 31. 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−7%
Then
1.2 m46 in
Now
1.1 m42 in
- Snowfall in the village−10%
Then
1.0 m41 in
Now
94.4 cm37 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−22 days
Then
51
Now
29
- Average temperature at the summit+1.5°C+2.7°F
Then
-9°C16°F
Now
-7°C19°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 m42 in1951/521.8 m69 in1952/531.1 m44 in1953/5482 cm32 in1954/5581 cm32 in1955/5691 cm36 in1956/571.3 m49 in1957/581.4 m55 in1958/5997 cm38 in1959/601.2 m47 in
- 1960s1960/611.4 m56 in1961/621.3 m50 in1962/6398 cm39 in1963/641.1 m44 in1964/651.6 m61 in1965/6686 cm34 in1966/6769 cm27 in1967/681.2 m48 in1968/691.2 m45 in1969/7089 cm35 in
- 1970s1970/7174 cm29 in1971/7262 cm24 in1972/731.6 m62 in1973/741.3 m50 in1974/751.5 m58 in1975/761.2 m45 in1976/771.1 m43 in1977/781.1 m41 in1978/791.5 m59 in1979/801.9 m76 in
- 1980s1980/8172 cm28 in1981/821.5 m59 in1982/831.8 m70 in1983/841.9 m74 in1984/851.6 m61 in1985/861.1 m43 in1986/871.7 m67 in1987/881.4 m54 in1988/891.2 m46 in1989/901.1 m44 in
- 1990s1990/911.3 m52 in1991/921.5 m59 in1992/932.0 m78 in1993/941.6 m61 in1994/951.4 m56 in1995/9693 cm37 in1996/971.5 m57 in1997/981.3 m50 in1998/991.1 m45 in1999/0079 cm31 in
- 2000s2000/0194 cm37 in2001/0265 cm26 in2002/031.1 m42 in2003/041.4 m56 in2004/051.4 m56 in2005/0666 cm26 in2006/071.2 m46 in2007/081.3 m50 in2008/091.3 m53 in2009/101.4 m56 in
- 2010s2010/1181 cm32 in2011/1296 cm38 in2012/1366 cm26 in2013/1492 cm36 in2014/151.3 m51 in2015/161.3 m50 in2016/171.7 m68 in2017/1850 cm20 in2018/191.4 m55 in2019/201.1 m42 in
- 2020s2020/211.0 m41 in2021/2293 cm37 in2022/231.2 m48 in2023/241.2 m48 in2024/2579 cm31 in2025/2645 cm18 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