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Weather forecasts for towns vs mountain

Codger

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When you look at weather forecasts that show for example rain/showers in aspen do you assume that is true for the mountain also or do you make some type of adjustment?
 

Sibhusky

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I use the point forecast for the Summit and midway up the mountain. The town forecast is useless. The NOAA site provides a map you can click on, but I use the latitude and longitude in an app that pulls from NOAA.
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For current observations, I use the weather station actually on the mountain and the great web cams.
 
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raytseng

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gonna be far different. I just left aspen, and 2miles away at the airport, no precip and more clear vs dumping in town and on the mountain.
when a system hits a range it completely interacts with the mountain, socks it in and dumps.

personally I also check snow-forecast as it has a elevation widgets so you can see base mid and summit forecasts. I don't know what model it pulls from but its just automated from the data and does not do local corrections.

For a resort though, generally I will trust the resorts weather report as primary source for what to wear and so on.
 

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Another resource, that may be available in other areas as well, is local telemetry taken at various spots. The coastal PNW has a site that covers most of the ski areas in Western Washington and Oregon, and at least some in Canada (I have not explored this option yet).

Here's the URL: http://www.localsnow.org/aval.php
 

raytseng

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agree, for sure opensnow for snow forecast and predicting storms
But for temps and wind and day of conditions, somewhy I find myself veering to the resort's page or snow-forecast more than opensnow
 

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other than ones noted about for near term weather:

I've called the on slope condo (managed) I was staying at for current conditions and the trends/report they've heard ... handy when traveling in and hoping to get on slope report and near by roads. The folks working skied and/or talked with guests daily/hourly about conditions and typically keep up to date on the overall forecast.
 

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