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The continued money grab by this app is disheartening, especially when it’s no where near worth the price. You can get the exact same information for free elsewhere so their asking you to pay for their narrative, which really doesn’t tell you anything different than any other free sites. It used to be fun app to look at but you could never take it to seriously as the forecasts aren’t any more accurate than Weather Underground. They continue to take things away from the free version, like a slow trickle until theres nothing left. It’s they way they’ve gone about it that’s a complete slap in the face. If they were providing bomb proof info or things you can’t find elsewhere, ok, but they’re not. $5, $10 ok, I’d entertain it. You can get the same 1 to 5 day snow forecasts from the individual mountain web pages. Thanks OpenSnow for taking something that used to be your labor of love and turning it into a money grab.

First off, I live in Summit County, CO so when Joel misses a forecast; it’s immediately obvious. I get it, meteorology is filled uncertainly but Joel Gratz always errors on the side of extreme optimism in terms of snow accumulation. This season, I started comparing Joel’s forecast to NOAA based on weather stations at the appropriate elevations near the ski areas (as opposed to the nearby towns). NOAA’s (free) forecasts have been more accurate in terms of both snowfall and storm timing for nearly every storm this season in both Summit and Eagle County. If you don’t mind paying for consistently overly optimistic forecasting, OpenSnow is great. It’s very convenient and the graphics are super straightforward. However, if you want accurate forecasts, there are numerous apps and websites that are free. Again, just make sure you are selecting actual weather stations and not just searching for the nearest town which may be 1,000 ft lower elevation.

I’ve used this app religiously the last 4-5 years and this app has managed to go downhill from the start. First and foremost the most consistent and detailed forecaster on this site is Evan Thayer. They frequently have one forecaster for large areas (Bob Ambrose AB/MT) and in turn lose out massively on consistency of forecasts, in addition to quality. Open Snow introduced a semi paywall 2 years ago which has led to its demise. First, they capped the quantity of forecasts you could read at 7 per week. This was announced pre-season and I was disappointed; yet understanding as they had brought on Evan and his forecasts are awesome! Several weeks later (I believe) they were lowering the quantity of forecasts you could read to 5 (which I think was further reduced to just 4) on the basis that their customers were reducing consumption of forecasts to stay under their premium pay wall. Now, I wake up today to find that Open Snow has decided to eliminate access to all forecasts other than a 3 sentence “summary” which they’ve instructed their forecasters to leave void of any useful information. This company has certainly fallen in line with the rest of the snow sports industry to gauge their supporters for as much $$$ as they can. Right on OS!