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Your favourite site for checking the weather when skiing? UPDATED

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hskip
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APOLOGIES - pressed submit by mistake in my last thread:

Hey everyone,

I am skiing in La Plagne next week, and its always at this stage that I cant help but check loads of different snow forecasts (mostly out of excitement), and it got me thinking. Anybody else do the same? I've found a few cool sites if anybody else finds this stuff interesting:

Snow-forecast https://www.snow-forecast.com/resorts/La-Plagne/6day/mid
Piste Pro - https://pistepro.com/snow-forecast/la-plagne/

I always find these smaller sites much more reliable than the BBC / Sky for some reason.

Anyway, happy skiing everyone :)
Jan 19 2024 11:46AM
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Rock_Inhabitant
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There’s this free knockoff of opensnow called onthesnow on the App Store and it sucks for forecast but it’s nice cause you can check cams for all the places you want in one place
Jan 19 2024 12:30PM
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dwt802
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I always check mountain forecast even though it tends to be off a LOT lol
Jan 19 2024 12:31PM
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Burrrlapz
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Yea I use snow forecast.com and don’t reeeeally put that much weight on it
Jan 19 2024 2:39PM
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midwestcoast
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Before they went to the paid model I followed Joel Gratz's daily blurb on Opensnow religiously. Since they went to a paid model I don't use it anymore :(

I like Wunderground for weather now
Jan 19 2024 2:42PM
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Grom
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NOAA by far. It is where most places get their info. Better to go to the mother source.
Jan 19 2024 3:33PM
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freestyler540
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Windy.com to check for Pacific depressions.
Weathernetwork for local weathers
Environment Canada for the doppler radar
Webcams for mountain weather
Jan 20 2024 9:25AM
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Getshifty
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GromNOAA by far. It is where most places get their info. Better to go to the mother source.


NOAA is a US government organization so they only forecast in the US, they’re the best tho
Jan 20 2024 11:49AM
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No-Skill-Phil
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Bergfex for the eurocrew
Jan 21 2024 12:34AM
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hi_vis360
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Weather radio
Jan 21 2024 8:09AM
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Butterytips69
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hi_vis360Weather radio

Shit goes so hard
Jan 21 2024 8:17AM
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Lenny-
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Jan 21 2024 8:34AM
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ski_joe
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GetshiftyNOAA is a US government organization so they only forecast in the US, they’re the best tho

for Canada:
weather.gc.ca/mainmenu/weather_menu_e.html

for Europe:
ecmwf.int

these are basically the equivalents of the NOAA in the US - get it from the source!
Jan 22 2024 8:57AM
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Benchhitter
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spotWX . Good to learn to read and interpret data and with some experience you can better understand the margin of error and the unpredictable possibilities that can make the resort forecast innacurate.
Jan 22 2024 11:30AM
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