Volcán Osorno, Chile. 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
+0.7°C+1.3°F
The trend: from -2°C28°F to -2°C29°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−32%
The trend: from 70 cm28 in to 48 cm19 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 1 to 0. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 0 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−5 days
The trend: from 18 to 13. 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−26%
Then
71.033 cm28 in
Now
52.367 cm21 in
- Snowfall in the village−11%
Then
58.567 cm23 in
Now
52.1 cm21 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
1
Now
0
- Days with a base at the summit±0 days
Then
0
Now
0
- Average temperature at the summit+0.5°C+0.9°F
Then
-2°C28°F
Now
-2°C29°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
- 1950s195091 cm36 in195142 cm17 in195250 cm20 in195351 cm20 in19541.5 m57 in195584 cm33 in195673 cm29 in195774 cm29 in195856 cm22 in195995 cm37 in
- 1960s196076 cm30 in19611.1 m43 in196222 cm9 in196328 cm11 in196480 cm31 in196548 cm19 in196677 cm30 in19671.1 m45 in196814 cm6 in196984 cm33 in
- 1970s197072 cm28 in19711.1 m42 in197269 cm27 in197364 cm25 in197496 cm38 in197585 cm33 in197652 cm20 in197784 cm33 in197861 cm24 in197927 cm11 in
- 1980s198046 cm18 in198133 cm13 in198234 cm13 in198391 cm36 in198463 cm25 in19859 cm4 in198615 cm6 in198716 cm6 in198861 cm24 in198963 cm25 in
- 1990s199016 cm6 in199141 cm16 in199280 cm31 in199336 cm14 in199437 cm15 in19951.6 m65 in199625 cm10 in199747 cm19 in199822 cm9 in199932 cm13 in
- 2000s200057 cm22 in200145 cm18 in200240 cm16 in200331 cm12 in200436 cm14 in200541 cm16 in200645 cm18 in20071.5 m58 in200853 cm21 in200945 cm18 in
- 2010s201057 cm22 in201165 cm26 in201266 cm26 in201331 cm12 in201443 cm17 in201567 cm26 in20168 cm3 in201775 cm30 in201860 cm24 in201957 cm22 in
- 2020s202086 cm34 in202148 cm19 in20221.2 m46 in202351 cm20 in202438 cm15 in202536 cm14 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