Your ski weather sources?

[Paul]

This works the best, but is pretty limited in range...

 

[salsgang]

I like mattnoyes.net and the weatherunderground backyard weather station google map is great for getting a sense of temperatures and wind direction / speed.

http://www.wunderground.com/stationmaps/gmap.asp?zip=05149&magic=2&wmo=99999

 

[Greg]

Bump

 

[bvibert]

I still primarily use AZ for my ski weather. I'll let all you weather nut jobs analyze all the sources and condense it into short synopsis's.

 

[severine]

This works the best, but is pretty limited in range...

I've noticed my left knee and formerly broken metatarsal are great weather predictors now! Though very short range...

 

[billski]

Since I make the majority of my plans last minute, weather is an essential component to the planning. I rolled my own private page with links and embeds to get me to the most critical information quickly. It's not pretty, but it's private and it works for me. In 10 minutes it's all at my finger tips and beats using a bunch of bookmarks.

http://www.iabsi.com/public/ski/toolbox.htm

 

[drjeff]

National weather service forcast for temps/trends as my baseline info. From that, especially this time of year with marginal temps for snowmaking purposes, if you look under the aviation weather section, you can get forcast temps for ground level, 3,000 ft altitude and 6,000 ft altitude which helps give an idea about possible summit temps vs. base temps, and also both how cold and from what direction the air with a potential weather system is.

 

[mondeo]

Whatever one predicts the most snow.

 

[Glenn]

I like the National Weather Service myself. The "Forecast Discussion" is usually pretty interesting and very detailed.

 

[frozencorn]

Nws.

 

[pepperdawg]

http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?site=btv&FcstType=text&site=BTV&map.x=225&map.y=163

and intellicast for radar

 

[RootDKJ]

Since I make the majority of my plans last minute, weather is an essential component to the planning. I rolled my own private page with links and embeds to get me to the most critical information quickly. It's not pretty, but it's private and it works for me. In 10 minutes it's all at my finger tips and beats using a bunch of bookmarks.

http://www.iabsi.com/public/ski/toolbox.htm

that's pretty slick. nice job

 

[Glenn]

that's pretty slick. nice job

x2! I just checked it out.

 

[BeanoNYC]

Wow, Bill. Throw some ads up on that! Good job, dude.

 

[pepperdawg]

x2! I just checked it out.

Ditto - likey likey!!!!!

 

[danny p]

bump

I have been looking at this site this season as bestskiweather.com has become almost useless....Roger Hill always seems to be a little ahead of the other mets IMO. Good site for North/Central VT.

http://oldsite.vtlink.net/users/wxman/weatheringheights/index.asp

 

[billski]

bump

I have been looking at this site this season as bestskiweather.com has become almost useless....Roger Hill always seems to be a little ahead of the other mets IMO. Good site for North/Central VT.

http://oldsite.vtlink.net/users/wxman/weatheringheights/index.asp

bestskiweather never impressed me and I stopped checking it.
Roger is alright, but doesn't update too often. Weather in the mts. is a fickle thing and most outlets don't report on it. I still give the nod to Scott and NWS Burlington for NVT but I wish we had a source for mountain weather in the remainder of New England. NWS Albany and Gray ME seem almost sleepy; they must be running to a different agenda.

I'm more interested these days in how much snow everyone is getting. for the most part I like to look at the NWS probability maps for 1-2-3 days ahead. They get updated with every forecast and give you a real sense for how things are shaping up. If you get it in your head first that they are probabilities of hi med and low it greatly enhances your ability to sniff out the sweet spots of snow. Also, the major media outlets, including TV, accu, weather.com and the metro media stations give broad brush ranges "4 to 8 inches". By looking at the probability charts it's very quik to figure out who has the highest odds of 8".



For the most part, I've been using the

 

[danny p]

when bestskiweather was Roemer and Hill I loved it. I think Roger's site has been updated almost every day this week. He called it earlier than anyone I saw that last weeks storm was gonna move north and slam VT, when everyone else was saying it was a southern NE storm. Late last week he said definitively that this storm would blow out to sea when everyone was pulling their hair out trying to figure out what this storm was going to do. This season I have become utterly frusturated with NWS, probably because all the info I want comes from the Albany branch.

 

[4aprice]

Herb, the skiing weatherman, Stevens:

http://www.snocountry.com/article.php/20080203115520112

He's usually pretty on the money. Especially his longer term forecasts throughout the winter.

Saw his recent blog and hope he's right because it looked awfully good for the 2nd 1/2 of the season.

I tend to check out the blogs on Easternuswx. If you can wade through the Washington DC crowd who seem to think they deserve 300-inches of snow you can get some pretty good info.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[180]

Billski, that is amazing, you need to get Greg to incorporate that.