76 winters, day by day
Voss Resort Fjellheisar, Norway. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Voss Resort Fjellheisar, 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 89% of 736 resorts
+3.0°C+5.4°F
The trend: from -7°C19°F to -4°C24°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
+21%
The trend: from 6.1 m239 in to 7.4 m290 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
+6 days
The trend: from 20 to 27. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−13 days
The trend: from 177 to 163. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
+9 days
The trend: from 85 to 94. 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+15%
Then
6.0 m237 in
Now
6.9 m273 in
- Snowfall in the village−18%
Then
2.5 m99 in
Now
2.0 m81 in
- Powder days at the summit+5 days
Then
20
Now
25
- Days with a base at the summit−7 days
Then
173
Now
166
- Average temperature at the summit+1.9°C+3.4°F
Then
-7°C20°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
- 1950s1950/513.9 m153 in1951/527.3 m286 in1952/536.2 m244 in1953/546.0 m237 in1954/555.6 m220 in1955/565.0 m198 in1956/577.7 m304 in1957/586.0 m238 in1958/594.4 m172 in1959/603.4 m134 in
- 1960s1960/616.2 m244 in1961/627.2 m284 in1962/633.5 m136 in1963/644.9 m191 in1964/656.6 m258 in1965/664.1 m161 in1966/679.3 m365 in1967/687.6 m298 in1968/694.0 m159 in1969/704.3 m170 in
- 1970s1970/716.5 m256 in1971/726.2 m243 in1972/739.2 m363 in1973/746.8 m269 in1974/758.2 m322 in1975/7610.3 m405 in1976/773.8 m150 in1977/784.8 m190 in1978/796.4 m250 in1979/805.1 m200 in
- 1980s1980/818.9 m352 in1981/825.7 m226 in1982/8310.1 m396 in1983/847.0 m276 in1984/855.2 m204 in1985/865.0 m196 in1986/876.7 m265 in1987/884.7 m186 in1988/8911.2 m441 in1989/9012.3 m484 in
- 1990s1990/915.2 m206 in1991/929.6 m376 in1992/9311.0 m432 in1993/947.4 m293 in1994/959.8 m385 in1995/962.5 m96 in1996/979.5 m372 in1997/985.8 m228 in1998/997.7 m303 in1999/0010.7 m420 in
- 2000s2000/013.6 m142 in2001/028.0 m315 in2002/034.6 m180 in2003/045.5 m217 in2004/059.0 m353 in2005/064.6 m182 in2006/0710.2 m400 in2007/088.4 m330 in2008/096.5 m257 in2009/103.5 m136 in
- 2010s2010/117.0 m274 in2011/128.5 m333 in2012/135.3 m209 in2013/148.7 m344 in2014/1510.1 m398 in2015/168.1 m320 in2016/177.6 m298 in2017/186.6 m258 in2018/194.2 m166 in2019/2010.4 m411 in
- 2020s2020/214.6 m180 in2021/227.4 m293 in2022/235.5 m218 in2023/246.6 m261 in2024/255.6 m219 in2025/264.3 m170 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