bestskiweather.com

[thebigeast]

good website for longer range forcasts and some interesting stuff for the amature meteoroligist

[milton]

hey....is that spancered by any ski areas in the NE?

[thebigeast]

yeah i it says right their on the main page, jay, stowe, smuggs, mgr, sugarbush

[COnative]

Here is a great site for world-wide snow forcasts...graphics are clean and it is relatively accurate...as accurate as one could expect for mountain weather. On the main menu at the top of the page, mouse-over "Weather Maps" and then go to what ever country and region you want to see.

http://www.snow-forecast.com/index.php

[mc_roon]

powderwatch is the one that i like the best

[shmerham]

good website for longer range forcasts and some interesting stuff for the amature meteoroligist

Roemer is an absolute quack. Plus, his forecasts read like a farmer's almanac; I see a 90% chance of 8 to 12 inches this week for Jay. Thanks genius; a place that gets 300 inches over 15 weeks. That's some bold forecasting dude.

[Steven S. Dallas]

What shmerham said. During the better part of 4 seasons at Jay, I was consistently underwhelmed by Mr. Roemer. He definitely didn't do any better than that 13-year-old kid who did the weather at the Plattsburgh TV station...

[Bring On The Snow]

www.snow-forecast.com is good

[JayTurcot]

Was gonna post this on a newer thread, but thought I'd tack it on here instead:

Disclaimer:
I'm no good at true meteorology (see what the systmes / jetstream are doing) and all I know is basic CFD and some knowledge of GCMs. Most of the knowledge I've gotten comes from a few years of watching forecasts for snow / wind change and either hold true or fizzle on the day of. (Nothing sucks more than standing on a beach in a wetsuit when it's 8oC out waiting for the wind to pick up another 5 knots ).

SF:
SF pulls from the GFS weather model (55km grid at best for the first few days... then it drops to 80km or 100+km for the longer term forecasts) which will run up to 16 days in the future. They claim to adapt the information a bit... but I think they just sample points from the model and tweak the results a bit (any SF staff on here? ).

One great website is:
http://www.windguru.cz/int/
Example: Windguru point for Whistler, BC

They pull raw data from many models and let you add your own observation points. They have the GFS which almost always lines up with SF (precipitation), and also gives estimates on cloud cover... from there they have a 3 day window with the NAM (North American Model) which has more details to model North America accurately. Lately... they're flip-flopping all over the place but updates more often than SF.

Surface Analysis
Gives up-to-date-ish plots of the pressure systems moving around... helps give context to the point forecasts that you look at from windguru and SF (i..e what's happening on the big scale and how likely is that forecast I'm looking at going to go away... big systems = good... they can only change so much)


For Whistler at least, EC seems to base their forecasts off GFS and the NAM and lean towards more snowfall and reduce their forecasts as it gets closer to the day of.

Hopefully some of the maggts read this and tell me I'm an idiot if they've got better knowledge... *somebody*'s got to have done meterology in their college years

EDIT: I said Surface plots were real-time...... apparently every 6h is real time....