Accurate Front Range Wind Forecast?!

High winds make climbing hard/impossible.  But all the usual places I look for weather show a relatively calm forecast for today:

weather.com: 18mph wind

wunderground: 14mph

climbingweather.com: 13 mph (gusts to 18mph)

willyweather.com: ( wind.willyweather.com/co/bo…) shows up to 24mph, but also graphs current wind at 36mph showing that it's much stronger than predicted (and this is almost ALWAYS the case)

Current winds up at NREL (highways 128 and 93) show steady 40mph wind with peak gust at 53mph. ( midcdmz.nrel.gov/nwtc_m2/di…)

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Every time I'm trying to decide whether to make climbing plans the following day, I try to find an accurate wind forecast but I can't find a site that reliably predicts these 50-80mph gusts that occur sometimes in the winter.  Yesterday in Boulder Canyon was similar: 10mph winds predicted in Nederland, and I was 10miles away at Animal World sitting in 50mph gusts.

What's your go to site?  You BASE jumpers/paragliders must have this totally figured out, no?

Paraglider here. Yesterday was weird for sure. Riding my bike it was light E leaving Boulder, strong W just behind town near Betasso, and only moderately windy by the time I reached P2P. 

Winter days with strong inversions and high winds aloft can be really hard to predict. If it's sunny you can get moderate upslope flows along the front range even when it's cranking W up higher. But when the inversion begins to dissipate all hell can break loose at it'll be gusting 30+ mph at ground level within minutes. 

All that is to say that some days just won't match up with what was predicted. But I'm a huge fan of the Windy app, or windy.com. You can scroll forward in time to view the forecast, get real time data, and view a bunch of different layers of data. The euro model (ECMF) is what I've found to be most accurate, and by looking at the winds at higher altitudes you can generally get a good idea of what to expect. 

Being on the lee side of the divide we get a double dose of the wind sometimes as it tends to compress and ramp up over the divide before crashing back down along the E side. Pretty cool to see it play out scrolling through Windy. See the screenshot below!

The WRF model point forecasts accessible through CAIC often seem to be pretty accurate for wind speeds. https://avalanche.state.co.us/forecasts/weather/point-forecasts/

You'll find a forecast for Boulder under Other Locations.