Thredbo Resort, Australia. Every ski winter from 1950 to 2025.
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 3% of 736 resorts
+0.8°C+1.4°F
The trend: from -1°C31°F to 0°C32°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−18%
The trend: from 91 cm36 in to 75 cm30 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 1 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−8 days
The trend: from 8 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−7 days
The trend: from 26 to 18. 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 1950–1979Now 1996–2025
- Snowfall at the summit−15%
Then
86.633 cm34 in
Now
73.633 cm29 in
- Snowfall in the village−13%
Then
32.667 cm13 in
Now
28.3 cm11 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
1
- Days with a base at the summit−5 days
Then
6
Now
1
- Average temperature at the summit+0.5°C+0.9°F
Then
-1°C31°F
Now
0°C32°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
- 1950s195037 cm15 in19511.1 m41 in195248 cm19 in19531.0 m41 in195442 cm17 in195597 cm38 in19561.6 m62 in195758 cm23 in195882 cm32 in195993 cm37 in
- 1960s196091 cm36 in196172 cm28 in196263 cm25 in196352 cm20 in19641.2 m48 in196561 cm24 in19661.0 m40 in196752 cm20 in19681.4 m57 in196979 cm31 in
- 1970s19701.2 m46 in197186 cm34 in19721.1 m44 in197348 cm19 in19741.3 m50 in197574 cm29 in197681 cm32 in19771.2 m49 in19781.0 m41 in197966 cm26 in
- 1980s198090 cm35 in19811.8 m72 in198251 cm20 in198376 cm30 in19841.0 m39 in198586 cm34 in198681 cm32 in198780 cm31 in198838 cm15 in198992 cm36 in
- 1990s19901.6 m64 in19911.5 m59 in19921.2 m46 in199346 cm18 in199457 cm22 in199595 cm37 in199692 cm36 in199741 cm16 in19981.1 m44 in199948 cm19 in
- 2000s200083 cm33 in200187 cm34 in200258 cm23 in200398 cm39 in200487 cm34 in200588 cm35 in200621 cm8 in200773 cm29 in200870 cm28 in200973 cm29 in
- 2010s201075 cm30 in201171 cm28 in201285 cm33 in201354 cm21 in201472 cm28 in201566 cm26 in201697 cm38 in201799 cm39 in201883 cm33 in201989 cm35 in
- 2020s202064 cm25 in20211.0 m40 in202266 cm26 in202336 cm14 in202444 cm17 in202575 cm30 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