Snow Reports
FAQ
Help!!
Log in to snowHeads to make it MUCH better!
Registration's totally free, of course, and makes snowHeads easier to use and to understand, gives better searching, filtering etc. as well as access to 'members only' forums, discounts and deals that U don't even know exist as a 'guest' user. (btw. 50,000+ snowHeads already know all this, making snowHeads the biggest, most active community of snow-heads in the UK, so you'll be in good company)..... When you register, you get our free weekly(-ish) snow report by email. It's rather good and not made up by tourist offices (or people that love the tourist office and want to marry it either)... We don't share your email address with anyone and we never send out any of those cheesy 'message from our partners' emails either. Anyway, snowHeads really is MUCH better when you're logged in - not least because you get to post your own messages complaining about things that annoy you like perhaps this banner which, incidentally, disappears when you log in :-)
Username:-
Password:
Remember me:
👁
durr, I forgot...
Or:
Register
(to be a proper snow-head, all official-like!)
J2SKI Forecast Accuracy
snowHeads Forum Index
>>>
The Piste
Prev topic
::
Next topic
Poster:
A snowHead
Poster:
A snowHead
As I sit here in eastern North America looking to book a vacation somewhere with good snow, I have been searching various sites for ski reports and snow forecasts. Bottom line.....eastern North America has not had a good year and this week looks particularly bad with very warm temperatures.
So it is a big surprise to see J2SKI giving a ski area called Mad River Glen(a quirky area in Vermont for experts) a forecast of 75cm of snow over the next four days. I am not that close so my forecast 16 degree high at home might not be the same as them but I decided to check the public forecast and I see high temperatures of 9 degrees Celsius and rain. The Snow Forecast website show well above freezing temperatures for the next three days.
I was already suspicious of J2SKI based on other forecasts but this is totally and blatantly wrong.
Have you had the same experience. Is there a possible profit motive for them?
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Mad River Glen is a fantastic place - Was there in 2010 a couple of times - I refer to it as “Artisan skiing (If you can)
Back to J2ski - I have not ever seen that site predict anything close to the actual outcome.
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?
Blakegreid wrote:
Is there a possible profit motive for them?
I made a similar joke on a recent skiing trip i.e. J2ski marketing team meeting.. "how do we increase views on our weather site?". To be fair, it works for them - that amount of people that I've skiied with that forward on screen grabs from J2Ski forecasts. People literally ignore the forecasts they don't like and just look at the ones that they like!
You need to
Login
to know who's really who.
You need to
Login
to know who's really who.
Can't be as bad as Metcheck. That's the only site I've seen forecast a wind speed of 327mph and a dump of snow in Rome in Italy in August when a temperature close to 40C is fairly typical.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
J2Ski is v unreliable. Far too optimistic. Sometimes there is a clue that it might be rain lower down as they put something like 8 to 40cm snow, which I take it means 40 above freeze line and mostly rain below. But generally I would ignore anyway as their forecast seldom stacks up. I use Snowforecast and Meteoblue
Terms and conditions
Privacy Policy
FAQ
Poster: A snowHead
