Snowstats 2014-2015
I’ve started the cron jobs for snowfall tracking! #snowstats What does this mean? It means I’m reading for winter. The post Snowstats 2014-2015 appeared first on Atmoz.
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Busted!
Copper Mountain Super Bee cam on November 3, 2014. Yesterday saw a lot of snow for many of the resorts. Unfortunately, it wasn’t well forecast. Another bummer is that snocountry only reports data for...
View ArticleYesterday at Copper
Copper got hammered yesterday! That was expected, but they got a lot more snow than predicted. The National Weather Service predicted that Copper would receive 7.28″ of snow and Opensnow predicted 4-8″...
View ArticleCopper storm totals 11/10-11/15
This last week has seen a lot of snow fall over the state. Almost all forecasts from all the sources I look at under-predicted. Not only did they under-predict storm totals, they under-predicted almost...
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Lies, Damned Lies, and… Snowstats?
I was involved in a discussion on Opensnow yesterday. It started with a comment from “gman” that said: “Colorado River Basin SWE at 95% of average as of right now (averaged from all SNOTEL sites). What...
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I’m stealing this headline from Opensnow because I like it. I’m still in the process of adding a method to a WordPress plugin to display error histograms on the resort pages. It’s actually relatively...
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Happy Eldora Day!
Error distribution for Opensnow forecasts at Eldora Eldora Mountain Resort opened today. Which means that I can now take the bus to go boarding. Woot! In honor of that, I’m dedicating this post...
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Crested Butte Stats
I tweaked the way I calculate whether a particular forecast is a bust. I decided I was being a little too hard on the forecasters. For example, a forecast of 4″ with a reported snowfall of 6″ would...
View ArticleReview of last week’s storm
[Correction: I was accidentally pulling data from snow-forecast.com that was in centimeters and not inches. Needless to say, this means there forecasts were actually the value below divided by 2.54. Or...
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Obsession with Copper
I look a lot at Copper. The main reason is that I originally started collecting data at Copper and therefore have a lot more data there. I added other resorts later. When looking at statistics, it’s...
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