76 winters, day by day
Wildcat Mountain, United States. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Wildcat Mountain, 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 11% of 736 resorts
+1.3°C+2.4°F
The trend: from -9°C16°F to -8°C18°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−12%
The trend: from 2.6 m102 in to 2.3 m89 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
−1 day
The trend: from 7 to 5. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−19 days
The trend: from 129 to 110. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−4 days
The trend: from 48 to 44. 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−7%
Then
2.6 m101 in
Now
2.4 m94 in
- Snowfall in the village−10%
Then
2.1 m81 in
Now
1.9 m73 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
6
Now
6
- Days with a base at the summit−11 days
Then
129
Now
117
- Average temperature at the summit+1.0°C+1.7°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
- 1950s1950/512.7 m107 in1951/523.3 m130 in1952/532.7 m106 in1953/542.8 m109 in1954/552.7 m105 in1955/562.6 m102 in1956/571.8 m69 in1957/583.9 m154 in1958/592.3 m89 in1959/602.7 m106 in
- 1960s1960/612.3 m90 in1961/622.5 m97 in1962/632.8 m109 in1963/642.1 m81 in1964/651.9 m75 in1965/662.3 m89 in1966/672.0 m78 in1967/682.2 m86 in1968/693.7 m144 in1969/702.1 m84 in
- 1970s1970/712.8 m111 in1971/723.0 m117 in1972/732.9 m115 in1973/742.4 m95 in1974/752.9 m116 in1975/762.6 m101 in1976/772.6 m101 in1977/782.8 m111 in1978/792.7 m105 in1979/801.3 m49 in
- 1980s1980/811.5 m59 in1981/822.7 m105 in1982/831.9 m76 in1983/842.8 m111 in1984/852.1 m82 in1985/862.1 m81 in1986/872.6 m104 in1987/882.0 m80 in1988/891.9 m75 in1989/902.0 m80 in
- 1990s1990/911.9 m76 in1991/921.9 m75 in1992/932.4 m93 in1993/942.6 m102 in1994/951.9 m73 in1995/962.9 m112 in1996/973.3 m128 in1997/982.5 m100 in1998/992.2 m87 in1999/002.0 m78 in
- 2000s2000/013.0 m119 in2001/022.3 m91 in2002/032.3 m90 in2003/041.8 m71 in2004/052.2 m85 in2005/061.7 m65 in2006/072.9 m114 in2007/083.0 m119 in2008/092.4 m96 in2009/103.0 m119 in
- 2010s2010/112.7 m107 in2011/121.6 m64 in2012/132.1 m82 in2013/142.3 m91 in2014/152.6 m104 in2015/161.3 m51 in2016/172.8 m109 in2017/182.4 m96 in2018/193.0 m118 in2019/202.9 m114 in
- 2020s2020/211.9 m76 in2021/222.2 m85 in2022/232.4 m95 in2023/242.7 m107 in2024/252.2 m85 in2025/261.9 m73 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