76 winters, day by day
Vassfjellet skisenter, Norway. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Vassfjellet skisenter, Norway. 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 96% of 736 resorts
+3.2°C+5.8°F
The trend: from -8°C18°F to -4°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−1%
The trend: from 2.5 m98 in to 2.5 m96 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 2 to 2. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−32 days
The trend: from 142 to 110. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 66 to 61. 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+2%
Then
2.4 m94 in
Now
2.4 m95 in
- Snowfall in the village+2%
Then
2.4 m95 in
Now
2.5 m97 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
2
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−20 days
Then
133
Now
114
- Average temperature at the summit+2.1°C+3.8°F
Then
-7°C19°F
Now
-5°C23°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
- 1950s1950/511.5 m58 in1951/522.9 m113 in1952/533.0 m120 in1953/542.0 m79 in1954/552.6 m102 in1955/562.8 m111 in1956/572.2 m85 in1957/582.5 m97 in1958/592.0 m78 in1959/601.3 m52 in
- 1960s1960/612.1 m82 in1961/622.7 m105 in1962/632.2 m85 in1963/642.7 m105 in1964/653.5 m137 in1965/661.9 m73 in1966/672.6 m101 in1967/683.2 m127 in1968/691.4 m56 in1969/701.9 m76 in
- 1970s1970/712.6 m102 in1971/722.1 m81 in1972/732.7 m104 in1973/742.8 m110 in1974/752.1 m82 in1975/764.7 m186 in1976/772.0 m77 in1977/782.1 m81 in1978/792.0 m78 in1979/802.0 m78 in
- 1980s1980/813.5 m139 in1981/822.4 m95 in1982/832.9 m113 in1983/842.5 m99 in1984/852.5 m98 in1985/862.4 m96 in1986/872.8 m109 in1987/882.9 m115 in1988/893.8 m151 in1989/902.8 m111 in
- 1990s1990/911.9 m75 in1991/923.4 m132 in1992/933.1 m121 in1993/941.6 m63 in1994/952.9 m113 in1995/962.0 m78 in1996/974.0 m156 in1997/982.2 m85 in1998/991.8 m72 in1999/003.5 m138 in
- 2000s2000/011.6 m61 in2001/023.0 m116 in2002/031.9 m73 in2003/042.2 m85 in2004/053.2 m125 in2005/062.6 m103 in2006/072.5 m99 in2007/082.9 m113 in2008/092.7 m108 in2009/101.7 m69 in
- 2010s2010/112.7 m105 in2011/123.3 m128 in2012/131.8 m72 in2013/141.6 m61 in2014/151.9 m74 in2015/162.2 m88 in2016/173.0 m118 in2017/182.0 m77 in2018/192.5 m100 in2019/203.1 m122 in
- 2020s2020/212.1 m84 in2021/223.3 m129 in2022/232.0 m80 in2023/241.6 m62 in2024/252.5 m99 in2025/261.5 m59 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