SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Tärmaby, Sweden. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Tärmaby
Average winter
2.7 m106 in
Snowiest winter
4.2 m163 in
Leanest winter
1.6 m64 in
Powder days a winter
2

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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Winter total
1950/511960/611970/711980/811990/912000/012010/112020/21
New snow in a day
1 cm0.4 in3 cm1 in7 cm3 in15 cm6 in30 cm12 in50 cm20 in

Climate change

One stripe per winter, 1950/51 to 2025/26. Blue winters were colder than this resort’s average, red ones warmer.

Average winter temperature at the summit

Faster warming than 81% of 736 resorts

+2.7°C+4.8°F

The trend: from -11°C13°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-15°5°-10°14°

Snowfall at the summit

+17%

The trend: from 2.5 m97 in to 2.9 m114 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in3.0 m118 in4.0 m157 in

Powder days at the summit

±0 days

The trend: from 3 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.

02468

Days with a base at the summit

−12 days

The trend: from 175 to 163. Point at a winter to read it.

120140160180

Days with fresh snow at the summit

+8 days

The trend: from 69 to 77. Point at a winter to read it.

6080100

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+12%

Then

2.5 m99 in

Now

2.8 m111 in

Snowfall in the village+5%

Then

1.9 m75 in

Now

2.0 m79 in

Powder days at the summit±0 days

Then

3

Now

3

Days with a base at the summit−7 days

Then

172

Now

165

Average temperature at the summit+1.7°C+3.0°F

Then

-10°C14°F

Now

-8°C17°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

Most snow in a day
36 cm14 in
Snowiest winter
4.2 m163 in
Leanest winter
1.6 m64 in
Deepest snow on the ground
213 cm84 in
Coldest night at the summit
-36°C-33°F
Strongest gust at the summit
138 km/h86 mph

All winters

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