⛷️ Skiing
Ski weather, scored for the hill
A great ski day is a stack of conditions: a real base, maybe some fresh snow, cold enough to keep it, not so cold or windy that the lifts hurt. BlockCast scores every block of your week for skiing on all of them, so you know which day to call in sick.
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What BlockCast checks for skiing
Every block gets a risk score from 0 to 100: green under 25, yellow under 55, red above. The worst factor drives the score and the others add to it. These are the default weights; you can change any of them in the app under Adjust.
Comfortable feels-like temperature: -18 to 6 °C (0 to 43 °F). Wind adds risk from 20 km/h (12 mph) sustained or 38 km/h (24 mph) in gusts. Under 20 cm of snow the ground counts as bare.
How it works
- Pick skiing and your spot. Use your location or search any place in the world, and save up to three.
- Read your week at a glance. Choose 2, 3, 4 or 6 hour blocks and the hours you actually play. Tap any block for the hour-by-hour detail and the reason behind its colour.
- Plan it and stop checking. Add the session to your planner and your calendar. BlockCast re-checks every forecast and tells you if a planned session turns bad.
Skiing weather questions
How does BlockCast score a ski day?
Snow base carries the most weight (9 out of 10): under about 20 cm the ground counts as bare. Fresh snow helps, rain on snow hurts, and the comfortable band is -18 to 6 °C (0 to 43 °F) of feels-like temperature, which includes wind chill on the lift.
How windy is too windy for skiing?
Strong wind closes upper lifts and makes the chair brutal. BlockCast ramps risk from 20 km/h of sustained wind and from 38 km/h in gusts, then turns red as gusts approach 70 km/h, a common range for wind holds.
Is the snow forecast for the resort or the town?
For the exact point you pick. Drop the pin on the hill rather than the town below it; snow depth and temperature change a lot with elevation.
Where the data comes from
Forecasts come from Open-Meteo. Rain is the wettest of three models (the local best match, ECMWF and Canada’s GEM), so a green block means they all agree. Radar is the North American composite from Environment and Climate Change Canada; official alerts come from Environment Canada and the US National Weather Service.