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As my recent ski trip to Switzerland approached, I did my usual thing of avidly looking at the snow forecasts (causing me to pointlessly switch back and forth between gloom and elation depending what the forecasts said). As I've done before, I looked at the Ski Club of Great Britain one, and also Bergfex. There always seemed quite a disparity between what the two sites were forecasting. In the end, the weather turned out to be quite close to what the SCGB site said, more so than Bergfex. I was just wondering what others have found in this respect. Has one of these sites turned out to be consistently more accurate than the other for you in its weather predictions? And if so, has this applied to both short-term and long-term forecasts?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Have found the opposite, Bergfex not only gives more info but tends, in my view, to be more accurate. The 9 day forecast is abonus too but we all know how weather patterns can change. ScGB shite only allows up to 6 days and with less info.
Other sites in use are weather2ski and snow-forecast both okay and free but Bergfex is still my pref.
Anyway, thats my 2peneth.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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J2R,
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| The Ski Club’s snow reports are the best online |
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| ADESki wrote: |
Have found the opposite, Bergfex not only gives more info but tends, in my view, to be more accurate. The 9 day forecast is abonus too but we all know how weather patterns can change. ScGB shite only allows up to 6 days and with less info.
Other sites in use are weather2ski and snow-forecast both okay and free but Bergfex is still my pref.
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Aren't the SCGB and snow-forecast ones exactly the same? And if you're a Ski Club member (as I am), you do get 9 days of forecast, although I take with a large pinch of salt anything further ahead than 4-5 days.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Bergfex is brilliant! It constantly over predicts snowfall putting you in a good mood, Look at it a week ahead, make your plans and then dont look at it again, all will be well.
I tend to just use the local ones for your chosen resort, they all have pretty pictures so are pretty easy to understand dispite language barriers and are in my opion better suited to the nuances of each resort. I am yet to find a Uk based site i trust.
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| dulcamara wrote: |
| Bergfex is brilliant! It constantly over predicts snowfall putting you in a good mood |
Yes, that's what I noticed too, quite consistently - predicting far more snow than SCGB (and proving wrong). I just wondered whether it was some kind of aberration (or that I was maybe misinterpreting what it meant), but it's interesting someone else has experienced the same.
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personally I always take the worst case as being more accurate....
I do find the 9 days snow fall, and 9 day temperature forecasts from Snow-forecast help full as an indicator of what is expected to come through at some time in the future.
Having said that its really difficult, actually impossible to get any accurate forecasting further out than 3 days IME.
default method is go high unless its a mega snow season already..
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Unless its changed and it might have done the SCGB forecast is taken from snowforecast anyway. Nozawaonsen's thread seems to me to be the most reliable though.
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| dulcamara wrote: |
Bergfex is brilliant! It constantly over predicts snowfall putting you in a good mood, Look at it a week ahead, make your plans and then dont look at it again, all will be well.
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Yes this, it predicts 30cm of snow then changes it to 3cm at midnight. I just look at as many as I can be bothered, snowforecast.com or somehting similar seems ok.
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I quite like Netweather.tv. Seems to me to be slightly less prone to the boom and bust of some other sites?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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We went skiing with the SCGB rep this year and she checked the weather on Bergflex 
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