76 winters, day by day
Whitewater Ski Resort, Canada. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Whitewater Ski Resort, Canada. 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 24% of 736 resorts
+1.7°C+3.1°F
The trend: from -9°C16°F to -7°C19°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−21%
The trend: from 4.0 m156 in to 3.2 m124 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−3 days
The trend: from 7 to 4. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−6 days
The trend: from 170 to 164. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−8 days
The trend: from 83 to 76. 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−13%
Then
3.9 m153 in
Now
3.4 m134 in
- Snowfall in the village−19%
Then
3.2 m127 in
Now
2.6 m102 in
- Powder days at the summit−2 days
Then
6
Now
4
- Days with a base at the summit−4 days
Then
168
Now
164
- Average temperature at the summit+1.1°C+2.0°F
Then
-9°C16°F
Now
-8°C18°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
- 1950s1950/514.1 m160 in1951/523.4 m134 in1952/534.0 m157 in1953/544.9 m192 in1954/553.6 m141 in1955/564.3 m169 in1956/573.3 m131 in1957/583.8 m151 in1958/594.2 m166 in1959/603.5 m139 in
- 1960s1960/614.3 m169 in1961/623.4 m133 in1962/633.5 m138 in1963/644.5 m178 in1964/653.7 m146 in1965/664.3 m170 in1966/675.4 m214 in1967/684.1 m161 in1968/693.9 m155 in1969/703.1 m123 in
- 1970s1970/715.0 m196 in1971/724.3 m170 in1972/733.4 m132 in1973/745.4 m211 in1974/754.1 m161 in1975/764.3 m168 in1976/772.1 m84 in1977/783.4 m132 in1978/792.5 m100 in1979/803.1 m120 in
- 1980s1980/813.3 m130 in1981/824.2 m163 in1982/833.9 m154 in1983/842.8 m108 in1984/852.7 m106 in1985/862.2 m88 in1986/873.0 m119 in1987/883.2 m124 in1988/893.3 m128 in1989/903.4 m132 in
- 1990s1990/913.9 m155 in1991/922.9 m115 in1992/932.6 m101 in1993/942.9 m116 in1994/953.7 m144 in1995/963.9 m155 in1996/974.2 m166 in1997/983.0 m117 in1998/995.0 m198 in1999/003.5 m138 in
- 2000s2000/012.1 m81 in2001/023.4 m134 in2002/033.5 m138 in2003/042.8 m112 in2004/052.7 m106 in2005/063.9 m152 in2006/073.6 m140 in2007/083.3 m131 in2008/092.7 m104 in2009/103.1 m123 in
- 2010s2010/114.3 m169 in2011/124.2 m166 in2012/133.5 m139 in2013/143.7 m144 in2014/152.7 m104 in2015/163.7 m146 in2016/173.7 m145 in2017/184.2 m166 in2018/192.7 m107 in2019/203.3 m131 in
- 2020s2020/213.1 m121 in2021/223.2 m126 in2022/233.3 m128 in2023/243.0 m120 in2024/253.3 m129 in2025/263.3 m128 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