Weather & Trail Conditions
Weather & Webcams
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Weather Forecasts
Happiest Outdoors published a guide called The Best Weather Apps for Hiking that provides an introduction to some of these weather apps:
- Spotwx: Spot weather forecasting tool allowing to compare the forecasts of different models for arbitrary GPS locations (Spot = a point or specific location, Wx = short for weather).
- Mountain Forecast: A forecasting tool allowing to check the forecast for a number of mountains.
- Windy.com: A powerful and versatile forecasting tool that provides many different layers (Wind, Smoke, Webcams, etc) and that allows visualization directly on a map.
- Meteoblue: Similarly to Spotwx, allows to compare the forecasts of different models. Direct access to the map
- Copernicus Browser: Up-to-date satellite images that are useful to visualize the amount of snow in the mountains
- Accuweather: A fairly standard weather app
- Yr.no: The official weather website of the Norwegian government. Uses open-source weather data from a variety of sources outside of Norway.
- The Weather Network: Canada's popular weather service, with city forecasts, radar, and alerts.
- Environment Canada (weather.gc.ca): Canada's official government weather service, with forecasts, radar, and weather alerts.
Webcams
- Windy.com: Provides a webcam layer
- MeteoBlue: Gives access to some webcams
- The Shops of Canmore
- Lake Louise Ski Resort
- Banff and Jasper Webcams
Avalanche Forecasts
- avalanche.ca: The go-to resource for avalanche forecasts in Canada. Provides detailed forecasts for different regions, including the Rockies.