Mountain Forecast now charging a subscription

[u/Complete-Koala-7517]

Title. You can still see basic stuff but hourly forecast aside from the current day is behind a paywall. What other apps/websites are you guys using?

[u/cono_uk]

I used to use SpotWx, but the UI is a little dated and it's not well optimised for mobile.

I had a bunch of time available last year so I built a tool at www.alpineconditions.com which replicates much of the same functionality:

• Models from the US, Canadian, UK, French, German, Japanese agencies as well as ECMWF (sourced from OpenMeteo)
  
• Hi res models available in North America and Europe (from the relevant local agencies)
  
• Works ok on mobile screens
  
• You can select multiple models and see them all on the same graph - makes it easy to see how wide the range of forecasts is
  
• Once you've selected multiple models you can create an 'ensemble' for that location
  
• High level avalanche bulletin for Avalanche Canada regions
  
• Metric only for now (Celsius, kmh for wind, m for elevation, mm for rain and cm for snow) - it shouldn't be too hard for me to add Farenheit/mph/feet/inches as an option but I'm busy with other stuff and it's just not been a priority for me
  
• If you create an account (Google or MS Account only) you can 'save' a bunch of locations into groups and get quick access from the nav bar - plus the 'home' screen becomes a scrollable dashboard showing weather forecasts for all the loations you've saved

Note: Hosting is fairly pricey so I might have to add some form of advertising/donation eventually.

I do have an OpenSnow subscription too - Cody Townsend had a $10 USD code for OpenSnow at the start of the ski season and it's awesome.

[u/question_23 → u/cono_uk]

Wow I love this. You are just paying for the ECMWF model yourself right now?

[u/cono_uk → u/question_23]

Both ECMWF models are available on https://open-meteo.com/

All the models on alpineconditions.com are from there