https://www.datameetsweather.com/blog daily 1.0 2026-11-06 https://www.datameetsweather.com/blog/6xxzqjyjosntmwvc6t2fc0l0z5738d monthly 0.5 2026-11-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/10cd7c4a-aa2f-472a-8168-5a6141397741/01_roni_timeline.png Blog - Super El Niño and Your Ski Season https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/54723823-805f-4636-ac1d-a4cac5ed4f0a/02_analog_snow_table.png Blog - Super El Niño and Your Ski Season https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/284665bb-65bf-4c6b-9d62-6a336a8f9932/03_snowpack_by_enso_phase.png Blog - Super El Niño and Your Ski Season https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/f351f0a8-6798-4a05-85af-0276e6a3fe00/05_era5_storm_track_map.png Blog - Super El Niño and Your Ski Season https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/8c0aa407-e4bf-4649-b85d-f4b40467c861/07_dry_or_warm.png Blog - Super El Niño and Your Ski Season https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/b4117bde-96d0-4d98-ab04-b219584890f0/06_outlook_2026_27.png Blog - Super El Niño and Your Ski Season https://www.datameetsweather.com/blog/what-made-the-2023-and-2026-ski-seasons-so-different-in-the-san-juans monthly 0.5 2026-10-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/77e11c13-a168-4823-9853-05b233682c24/san_juan_01_swe_overlay.png Blog - What Made the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons So Different in the San Juans - Make it stand out Average snow water equivalent at seven San Juan SNOTEL stations (10,000 to 11,000 ft). The 2025-26 snowpack peaked at 10.3 in on March 7, a month earlier and at less than a third of the 34.2 in reached on April 7, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/7d554ce3-2e06-463e-a147-22aebc149bb2/san_juan_02_cumulative_precip.png Blog - What Made the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons So Different in the San Juans - Make it stand out Cumulative precipitation at Durango, CO, starting October 1. A wet first two weeks of October kept 2025-26 ahead through February, but that moisture arrived before the snowpack started building, and 2022-23 finished about 3 in ahead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/a325cf9d-e750-4d51-9543-b0c5e5b78229/san_juan_03_thickness.png Blog - What Made the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons So Different in the San Juans - Make it stand out Thickness of the air layer between the 500 and 200 mb levels (roughly 18,000 to 39,000 ft) over Durango. Higher means a ridge and warmer air, lower means a trough and colder air. 2025-26 ran higher for most of the winter, including a spike in the third week of March as the snowpack was losing most of its water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/65a84b9b-21e3-4d05-8e92-23b1e2d844fe/san_juan_04_oni_vs_swe.png Blog - What Made the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons So Different in the San Juans - Make it stand out Each dot is one winter since 1992, with DJF ONI on the x-axis and peak snowpack on the y-axis. Strong La Niña and El Niño winters both land across nearly the full range of outcomes, and the correlation is close to zero (r = 0.02). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/77ead7d7-7e74-4846-a35b-310351aaf9e9/san_juan_05_temp_by_enso_phase.png Blog - What Made the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons So Different in the San Juans - Make it stand out Durango's November-to-May mean temperature, grouped by ENSO phase. El Niño winters ran slightly cooler (median about 34.4°F versus 35.2°F for La Niña), but the boxes overlap heavily. The outlier near 42°F is 2025-26. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/d186070e-e595-48dc-80aa-195dc5bba952/san_juan_06_oni_vs_temperature.png Blog - What Made the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons So Different in the San Juans - Make it stand out The same temperature record plotted against the ENSO index itself. The trend slopes slightly downward (r = -0.30): El Niño leans cooler in the San Juans, the opposite of the Pacific Northwest. Most of the year-to-year variation is left unexplained. https://www.datameetsweather.com/blog/what-made-the-2023-and-2026-ski-seasons-so-different-in-the-tahoe-basin monthly 0.5 2026-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/2f30b079-7b3c-4adf-b81e-3b797623f50c/tahoe_01_swe_overlay.png Blog - What Made the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons So Different in the Tahoe Basin? - Make it stand out Tahoe's snowpack peaked at about 66 inches on April 7 in 2022-23 (blue). In 2025-26 (red) it topped out near 18 inches on February 24, less than a third as much and almost seven weeks earlier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/41b494ff-b8a1-4ec8-859e-0b790df947b4/tahoe_02_cumulative_precip.png Blog - What Made the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons So Different in the Tahoe Basin? - Make it stand out Unlike Utah and the Pacific Northwest, Tahoe's lean year really was a drier one. Reno collected roughly 15 inches of precipitation in 2025-26 (red) compared with about 24 inches in 2022-23 (blue). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/3777a0d1-00a7-4de5-bf2c-47079c816588/tahoe_03_thickness.png Blog - What Made the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons So Different in the Tahoe Basin? - Make it stand out This measures how warm the whole air column was above Reno. Through most of the core winter, 2025-26 (red) ran warmer than 2022-23 (blue), which dug into long, cold troughs that the lean year never matched. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/c96cb7f0-ab3d-43d1-851f-0a4840087387/tahoe_04_oni_vs_swe.png Blog - What Made the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons So Different in the Tahoe Basin? - Make it stand out Across 35 winters, El Niño (orange), La Niña (blue), and neutral (gray) years are scattered across the full range of Tahoe snowpack outcomes. The correlation is essentially zero (r = 0.00). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/f61e0b9a-9e1e-4c79-8c73-8063ae9daeee/tahoe_05_temp_by_enso_phase.png Blog - What Made the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons So Different in the Tahoe Basin? - Make it stand out Reno's November-to-May temperatures look nearly the same in La Niña, neutral, and El Niño winters. The medians sit within about a degree of each other, and the spread within each phase is much larger than the gap between them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/2c1ac0a3-68ed-428f-a114-d14511ad49a1/tahoe_06_oni_vs_temperature.png Blog - What Made the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons So Different in the Tahoe Basin? - Make it stand out Plotting the ENSO index against Reno winter temperature gives a flat line (r = 0.00). Unlike the Pacific Northwest, where El Niño winters ran reliably warmer, Tahoe shows no relationship here. https://www.datameetsweather.com/blog/what-separated-the-2023-and-2026-ski-seasons-in-the-pacific-northwest-and-what-enso-had-to-do-with-it monthly 0.5 2026-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/c180320e-f7c1-42e4-af19-163722683b74/pnw_01_swe_overlay.png Blog - What Separated the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons in the Pacific Northwest, and What ENSO Had to Do With It - Make it stand out FIGURE 1: Snowpack in the Cascades peaked at 46.7 inches on April 22 in 2022-23 (blue) — nearly double the 26.1 inches 2025-26 (red) managed by its March 16 peak. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/5824ea85-56e5-4399-a88f-14c52f28cb6d/pnw_02_cumulative_precip.png Blog - What Separated the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons in the Pacific Northwest, and What ENSO Had to Do With It - Make it stand out FIGURE 2: The lower-snow year wasn't a dry one — Seattle actually recorded more total precipitation in 2025-26 (red) than in the record-snow winter of 2022-23 (blue). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/65de5a5f-4a37-43e5-b62b-1b64b25d9a9f/pnw_03_thickness.png Blog - What Separated the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons in the Pacific Northwest, and What ENSO Had to Do With It - Make it stand out FIGURE 3: A measure of how warm or cold the air column was above Seattle each season — 2025-26 (red) ran consistently warmer through the winter than 2022-23 (blue), especially during a sharp spike in late winter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/32ffa3b1-dd36-4505-8120-9195303d4197/pnw_04_oni_vs_swe.png Blog - What Separated the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons in the Pacific Northwest, and What ENSO Had to Do With It - Make it stand out FIGURE 4: Across 35 winters, La Niña years (blue) tend toward higher Cascades snowpack and El Niño years (orange) toward lower — a moderate but real relationship (r = -0.43). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/7cb47b73-ec4e-4429-9643-081aef50b4bd/pnw_05_temp_by_enso_phase.png Blog - What Separated the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons in the Pacific Northwest, and What ENSO Had to Do With It - Make it stand out FIGURE 5: El Niño winters in Seattle run measurably warmer than La Niña winters on average, though individual years within each category vary widely. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/6ac7a331-8bcc-4cd7-b82f-707df49401ed/pnw_06_oni_vs_temperature.png Blog - What Separated the 2023 and 2026 Ski Seasons in the Pacific Northwest, and What ENSO Had to Do With It - Make it stand out FIGURE 6: The clearest signal in the whole study: ENSO phase and Seattle winter temperature move together fairly closely (r = 0.49), with El Niño winters reliably warmer than La Niña winters. https://www.datameetsweather.com/blog/el-nio-wont-save-your-ski-season-and-la-nia-didnt-ruin-it monthly 0.5 2026-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/c6d1d661-9875-4edf-842f-2bc8203e35b4/01_oni_vs_temperature.png Blog - El Niño Won't Save our Ski Season (And La Niña Didn't Ruin It) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/c673d0c9-d6fa-4253-b3a6-f898e308991e/04_robustness_oni_vs_temperature.png Blog - El Niño Won't Save our Ski Season (And La Niña Didn't Ruin It) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/99e71a18-bdb1-4c4c-99a2-11068e3267e6/02_temp_by_enso_phase.png Blog - El Niño Won't Save our Ski Season (And La Niña Didn't Ruin It) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/21964ff8-4dc1-4412-8633-7a5730e4c6a2/03_temp_vs_powder_days.png Blog - El Niño Won't Save our Ski Season (And La Niña Didn't Ruin It) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/55e0a36d-67e4-4e7f-a346-3ff8e6bfaf00/05_robustness_temp_vs_powder_days.png Blog - El Niño Won't Save our Ski Season (And La Niña Didn't Ruin It) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.datameetsweather.com/blog/64n1frm59ivmk314mc4dfrtczeo81a monthly 0.5 2026-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/3add97a1-0a5d-4013-a278-188562dd89a4/swe_overlay.png Blog - What made the 2023 and 2026 Ski seasons so different in Utah? - Make it stand out Figure 1: SWE daily totals for the 2022-2023 (blue) and 2025-2026 (red) ski seasons with this year’s SWE in green. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/a78a4bf4-9c58-4904-8d52-4f412173130a/cumulative_precip.png Blog - What made the 2023 and 2026 Ski seasons so different in Utah? - Make it stand out Figure 2 : Cumulative precipitation in the Salt Lake Valley over time for the 2022-2023 (blue) and 2025-2026 (red) ski seasons with this year’s precipitation in green. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/18cd7ec3-b147-4222-8d50-a367aae6ab06/valley_temp_overlay.png Blog - What made the 2023 and 2026 Ski seasons so different in Utah? - Make it stand out Figure 3: Temperature in the Salt Lake Valley over time for the 2022-2023 (blue) and 2025-2026 (red) ski seasons with this year’s temperature in green. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/6166dd73-1d35-4d21-b48e-30aa43f0fa19/thickness_500_200hpa.png Blog - What made the 2023 and 2026 Ski seasons so different in Utah? - Make it stand out Figure 4: Air column thickness in the Salt Lake Valley over time for the 2022-2023 (blue) and 2025-2026 (red) ski seasons with this year’s thickness in green. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/a3af2d7e-9aa1-40bf-b431-f6a0f63c3003/oni_vs_snowpack.png Blog - What made the 2023 and 2026 Ski seasons so different in Utah? - Make it stand out Figure 5: The left figure shows the ENSO index (solid black lines; red dots indicating El Nino year, blue dots indicating La Nina year) over time compared to the total SWE (blue dotted line) for each year. The right figure demonstrates the correlation between the ENSO phase and total SWE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/a64f0ed4-53e9-49c7-92b3-2b42fd359543/antecedent_comparison.png Blog - What made the 2023 and 2026 Ski seasons so different in Utah? - Make it stand out Figure 6: Pre season temperature averages and precipitation totals ahead of each ski season year. https://www.datameetsweather.com/blog/wildfires-have-become-the-face-of-climate-change-but-what-does-the-data-say monthly 0.5 2026-09-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/f7a182ca-ba37-4370-97c8-89aef537d8f5/ignition_cause_split.png Blog - Wildfires Have Become the Face of Climate Change. But What Does the Data Say? - Make it stand out FIGURE 1: Human vs. Lightning Wildfire Causes. Left: Human-caused vs. lightning-caused percentage of fires and acreage burned. Right: Year-by-year trends from 2001–2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/cf9da243-3493-47aa-9b7e-fb5334db6724/fires_vs_acres_decoupling.png Blog - Wildfires Have Become the Face of Climate Change. But What Does the Data Say? - Make it stand out FIGURE 2: Wildfire Count vs. Acres Burned. Dual-axis line chart showing: wildfire count vs. acres burned. The bold lines reflect the 5-year rolling averages from 1983–2024 and faded lines represent the raw data. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/00868a44-3045-49ee-8676-f48ca519029e/climate_correlation_naive_vs_rigorous.png Blog - Wildfires Have Become the Face of Climate Change. But What Does the Data Say? - Make it stand out FIGURE 3: Naive vs. Rigorous Climate Correlation. Left: raw temperature vs. acreage correlation. Right: relationship after removing the shared trend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/40c7b9e1-88d2-4915-818d-eb490d1013a4/suppression_costs_nominal_vs_real.png Blog - Wildfires Have Become the Face of Climate Change. But What Does the Data Say? - Make it stand out INSERT FIGURE 4: Wildfire Suppression Costs. Left: nominal vs. inflation-adjusted suppression costs. Right: inflation-adjusted cost per acre burned. https://www.datameetsweather.com/blog/when-should-i-plan-a-ski-trip-to-utah monthly 0.5 2026-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/888ff32f-6a1a-4b69-af99-73b3c8ca37c8/snowbird-storm.jpg Blog - When Should I Plan a ski Trip to Utah? - Make it stand out Thunderstorms approach Snowbird, UT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/1d0884ef-de6e-4f85-8c18-5575630a65ea/station-766-snowbird-UT-SNOTEL_SWE_powder_probability.png Blog - When Should I Plan a ski Trip to Utah? - Make it stand out Graph showing probability of snowfall greater than or equal to 4 inches of snow for Snowbird and Alta, using SNOTEL Station 766 as a proxy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/8af73342-fd00-4e5a-a614-258360fa8680/station-366-brighton-ut_powder_probability.png Blog - When Should I Plan a ski Trip to Utah? - Make it stand out Graph showing probability of snowfall greater than or equal to 4 inches of snow for Brighton and Solitude, using SNOTEL Station 366 as a proxy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/679c8f2b-6a9d-44ad-910c-9bc4e3f759a6/station-684-parleyssummit-UT-SNOTEL_SWE_powder_probability.png Blog - When Should I Plan a ski Trip to Utah? - Make it stand out Graph showing probability of snowfall greater than or equal to 4 inches of snow for Deer Valley and Park City, using SNOTEL Station 684 as a proxy. https://www.datameetsweather.com/blog/Blog Post Title One-3zaa9-zlxng-67tfc-snket monthly 0.5 2026-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/ad4ca8d8-be6d-4df5-89f8-c413cc31a43b/weekend_vs_weekday_boxplot.png Blog - Does Weather Influence mountain Bike Demand? - Make it stand out Box plot comparing mountain bike searches on weekdays versus weekends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/ced56007-00ff-4b43-bc64-d96d1a5d5fec/rain_vs_no_rain_boxplot.png Blog - Does Weather Influence mountain Bike Demand? - Make it stand out Box plot comparing mountain bike interest on rainy versus non-rainy days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69caa267ca2ed71deb6eed3a/1679d481-001c-4fd7-bd18-94898a07921e/ols_coefficient_plot.png Blog - Does Weather Influence mountain Bike Demand? - Make it stand out Model variables and how that influence mountain bike interest. 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