Accuracy of J2Ski's Powder Alarms

I really cannot believe that people are getting so exercised about this :roll: .

The reality is that forecasts of mountain weather are notoriously unreliable :x . To make matters more complicated, practically every ski resort claims that it has a special micro climate that means that they get extra snow :shock: . Expecting snow fall forecasts for a particular resort to be near perfectly accurate is completely unreasonable :roll: . The best you can hope for is a reasonable level of accuracy as to conditions over a maximum period of about 3 days (or occasionally a bit longer for settled fine weather). Even then, the best I ever expect is an indication of low, medium or high snowfalls -) .

If any of the sites issuing forecasts are to be faulted in any respect, it is in their folly of publishing specific forecasts down to the nearest centimetre and often for as long as 14 days. I know people crave this type of information but it needs to be highly qualified, even more so given the level of reliability apparently expected/demanded by some people.

Of course, none of this stops any of us from reviewing multiple sites weeks in advance and obviously only believing the one that forecasts the most snow :mrgreen: . We also see nothing wrong in shifting our allegiances between different sites to allow us pin our hopes on the next big dump :mrgreen:

Last Friday J2Ski were forecasting 2cms for that day plus 1cm on each of the following 3 days; all the other sites I checked were forecasting no snow for those days and they were correct. Yet more evidence that J2Ski should change the source of their forecasting.

No snow forecast for Saint Gervais and none has fallen. Sort it out J2Ski!!

I hasten to add, we are having a great time.