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Start of the PG weather service season

It's getting colorful again!

by PowderGuide 11/20/2020
The PowderGuide weather service is available again as usual from today. We hope the winter will give us a jolt and our PowderMap will soon be really colorful again! As before, there are SNOWGRID and sunshine maps as well as a short text forecast.

It's not really wintry yet, but with the weather data from ZAMG (Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Öster. Wetterdienst), which is now populating the PowderGuide homepage again, at least we're no longer in danger of missing an approaching onset of winter!

New snow, SNOWGRID and co

The new snow and sunshine forecasts are based on the high-resolution INCA model from ZAMG. For the SNOWGRID maps, the void west of Engelberg, for example, does not mean that there is never any snow here. Unfortunately, the model coverage ends here - SNOWGRID is only available for Austria and some smaller, directly adjacent areas. SNOWGRID has a model grid point every 100m. This means that one value in the snow depth map corresponds to an area of 100x100 meters. For comparison: The standard size for soccer pitches is 105m x 68m. SNOWGRID therefore does not see small-scale fluctuations, such as blown-off terrain edges or particularly thick drift snow packs, but gives a good indication of the snow conditions in the region.

The picture above shows where it snowed noticeably during the cold front on Friday. It wasn't really abundant anywhere, but if you are very motivated, you could compare the change in snow depth with the map of total snow depth and thus determine in which (closed) ski area there may already be enough base to make use of a few centimetres of fresh snow. Incidentally, SNOWGRID does not recognize artificial snow...

The PowderMap

In the bar at the top of the website you will still find our PowderMap, where you can scroll back and forth between the various forecast maps and SNOWGRID. There is also the option of displaying the conditions reports. Here again as a reminder, or for new users, the PowderMap in the explanatory video:

And now everyone please do a snow dance so that the maps soon fill up with powder forecasts!

This article has been automatically translated by DeepL with subsequent editing. If you notice any spelling or grammatical errors or if the translation has lost its meaning, please write an e-mail to the editors.

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