Best Weather App?
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I’m curious about what y’all like to use for weather prediction around here?? I tend to prefer NOAA, but I hate having a bunch of saved tabs in my browser. I’m wondering if anyone has a weather app they feel is pretty reliable/user-friendly that they like to use for places in Colorado? |
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It's a paid service but so far I have been pretty impressed by OpenSnow's summer predictions. The interface is a little more clunky than their winter side, where they got their start (and why I subscribed) but they have been slowly refining it. Completely superceded mountain-forecast for me. |
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If you right click on a location in CalTopo you can look at “point info” and it will link a NWS forecast for those coordinates. This works even in the free version, and is super nice to get summit forecasts as opposed to the nearest town, especially helpful for wind speed/direction. RMNP has a lot of weather monitoring stations (idk how many feed into NOAA/NWS vs are for research) and IMO tends to have better forecasting than say a rando 13er in the middle of a wilderness area. It’s worth mentioning that a lot of weather apps and including subscription ones are just pulling NOAA/NWS data and “doing their own forecasting”. You know, for as long as we continue to fund national weather forecasting. |
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I like yr.no (the Norwegian meteorological office). You can choose peaks to get altitude adjusted forecasts, the design is slick, and you get granular three day plus ten day outlook: |
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“WeatherBug” because you can use the nearest weather recording device station to your climbing location. |
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For my location around Grand Junction, Weather Underground has worked very well. |
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Windy. -> you can see and compare the various models. |
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I’ve been using foreca.com or most often the app. It’s worked well for me no matter where I’ve traveled. |
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I also used OpenSnow for a year before my free trial ended and they opted not to renew the free option for AMGA members. It was quite good, just couldn't justify the cost. Went back to Windy, which is good, especially if you know the weather models and want to compare. I also like Spotwx.com. Interface is old-school, but you can pick your location and choose the forecast model you want to look at. No app as far as I can tell though. |