SnowOdds

76 winters, day by day

Tetnuldi, Georgia. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.

Painting of Tetnuldi
Average winter
3.7 m145 in
Snowiest winter
6.5 m254 in
Leanest winter
1.8 m71 in
Powder days a winter
9

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 1% of 736 resorts

+0.5°C+0.9°F

The trend: from -11°C11°F to -11°C12°F. Point at a winter to read it.

-14°7°-12°10°-10°14°-8°18°

Snowfall at the summit

+9%

The trend: from 3.5 m138 in to 3.8 m151 in. Point at a winter to read it.

2.0 m79 in4.0 m157 in6.0 m236 in

Powder days at the summit

+1 day

The trend: from 8 to 9. Point at a winter to read it.

05101520

Days with a base at the summit

+4 days

The trend: from 168 to 173. Point at a winter to read it.

120140160180

Days with a base in the village

−2 days

The trend: from 168 to 166. Point at a winter to read it.

120140160180

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

3.6 m140 in

Now

3.8 m150 in

Snowfall in the village+3%

Then

3.0 m118 in

Now

3.1 m122 in

Powder days at the summit+1 day

Then

8

Now

10

Days with a base at the summit+2 days

Then

168

Now

170

Days with a base in the village−1 day

Then

166

Now

165

Average temperature at the summit+0.2°C+0.4°F

Then

-11°C12°F

Now

-11°C12°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
46 cm18 in
Snowiest winter
6.5 m254 in
Leanest winter
1.8 m71 in
Deepest snow on the ground
284 cm112 in
Coldest night at the summit
-35°C-32°F
Strongest gust at the summit
116 km/h72 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