76 winters, day by day
Whiteface Mountain Ski Center, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Whiteface Mountain Ski Center, United States. 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 18% of 736 resorts
+1.6°C+2.8°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -9°C16°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−9%
The trend: from 2.2 m87 in to 2.0 m79 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 4 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−38 days
The trend: from 110 to 72. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−2 days
The trend: from 52 to 50. 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−6%
Then
2.2 m87 in
Now
2.1 m82 in
- Snowfall in the village−7%
Then
1.6 m63 in
Now
1.5 m59 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
4
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−23 days
Then
108
Now
85
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.0°F
Then
-10°C14°F
Now
-9°C16°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
- 1950s1950/512.7 m104 in1951/522.4 m93 in1952/532.1 m83 in1953/542.4 m93 in1954/552.7 m104 in1955/562.1 m84 in1956/571.5 m61 in1957/582.7 m105 in1958/592.4 m94 in1959/602.5 m98 in
- 1960s1960/611.8 m71 in1961/622.3 m89 in1962/632.3 m91 in1963/641.5 m58 in1964/651.6 m61 in1965/661.8 m71 in1966/671.5 m60 in1967/681.5 m60 in1968/692.7 m107 in1969/702.2 m87 in
- 1970s1970/712.8 m110 in1971/722.7 m106 in1972/732.4 m94 in1973/742.5 m97 in1974/752.5 m100 in1975/762.8 m109 in1976/772.2 m85 in1977/782.3 m91 in1978/792.4 m93 in1979/801.3 m51 in
- 1980s1980/811.6 m63 in1981/821.8 m72 in1982/831.6 m62 in1983/842.4 m94 in1984/852.1 m83 in1985/862.1 m81 in1986/871.9 m75 in1987/881.5 m61 in1988/891.9 m74 in1989/901.9 m74 in
- 1990s1990/911.8 m72 in1991/921.5 m61 in1992/932.7 m106 in1993/942.4 m94 in1994/951.5 m60 in1995/962.3 m91 in1996/972.7 m107 in1997/982.3 m91 in1998/992.1 m84 in1999/002.3 m91 in
- 2000s2000/012.4 m93 in2001/022.1 m84 in2002/032.1 m82 in2003/042.0 m79 in2004/051.6 m62 in2005/061.5 m58 in2006/072.4 m95 in2007/082.7 m105 in2008/091.8 m72 in2009/101.9 m73 in
- 2010s2010/112.3 m92 in2011/121.7 m67 in2012/131.7 m67 in2013/142.1 m82 in2014/152.0 m78 in2015/161.2 m46 in2016/172.4 m96 in2017/182.1 m82 in2018/192.5 m96 in2019/202.2 m85 in
- 2020s2020/211.8 m69 in2021/222.1 m81 in2022/232.2 m87 in2023/242.3 m89 in2024/252.2 m87 in2025/262.0 m77 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