76 winters, day by day
Whitefish Mountain Resort, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Whitefish Mountain Resort, 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 42% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.6°F
The trend: from -10°C14°F to -8°C17°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−30%
The trend: from 3.1 m124 in to 2.2 m87 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 3 to 1. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−24 days
The trend: from 161 to 137. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−16 days
The trend: from 78 to 63. 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−18%
Then
3.0 m119 in
Now
2.5 m98 in
- Powder days at the summit−1 day
Then
3
Now
2
- Days with a base at the summit−14 days
Then
155
Now
141
- Average temperature at the summit+1.3°C+2.3°F
Then
-10°C15°F
Now
-8°C17°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
- 1950s1950/513.4 m132 in1951/522.4 m95 in1952/533.4 m135 in1953/544.4 m173 in1954/552.7 m107 in1955/563.3 m131 in1956/572.7 m107 in1957/582.6 m103 in1958/593.6 m140 in1959/603.0 m118 in
- 1960s1960/613.3 m128 in1961/622.8 m111 in1962/632.2 m86 in1963/643.9 m154 in1964/653.6 m143 in1965/662.7 m107 in1966/674.0 m156 in1967/682.8 m108 in1968/692.7 m106 in1969/702.7 m107 in
- 1970s1970/713.5 m139 in1971/724.0 m156 in1972/731.8 m70 in1973/743.8 m148 in1974/753.0 m119 in1975/763.2 m126 in1976/771.6 m64 in1977/783.0 m118 in1978/792.6 m102 in1979/802.2 m85 in
- 1980s1980/812.2 m86 in1981/823.1 m122 in1982/832.6 m103 in1983/842.1 m81 in1984/852.4 m94 in1985/861.7 m68 in1986/872.1 m81 in1987/881.9 m75 in1988/892.6 m103 in1989/903.0 m119 in
- 1990s1990/912.8 m111 in1991/921.8 m72 in1992/932.0 m79 in1993/942.2 m86 in1994/952.0 m80 in1995/963.1 m121 in1996/974.0 m156 in1997/981.9 m73 in1998/993.4 m132 in1999/002.5 m100 in
- 2000s2000/011.9 m76 in2001/022.7 m106 in2002/032.2 m87 in2003/042.2 m86 in2004/051.7 m67 in2005/062.5 m99 in2006/072.3 m90 in2007/083.1 m123 in2008/092.7 m104 in2009/102.0 m78 in
- 2010s2010/113.7 m145 in2011/122.6 m101 in2012/132.5 m100 in2013/143.3 m130 in2014/151.9 m74 in2015/162.1 m81 in2016/172.4 m93 in2017/183.3 m131 in2018/192.1 m81 in2019/202.3 m89 in
- 2020s2020/212.2 m85 in2021/222.6 m101 in2022/232.0 m80 in2023/242.0 m78 in2024/252.5 m98 in2025/262.1 m81 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