Almost a complete winter season has now passed since we went online with the new website and the PowderGuide ICON weather forecast maps in mid-November 2023. The analyses of the click figures show that the effort has paid off and that significantly more visitors are clicking on the weather maps than last winter. This is pleasing and encourages us to continue working on our (many) ideas for expanding the weather forecast maps.
The next small step was to expand the forecast areas in order to provide reliable snow and weather forecasts for those of you travelling or visiting outside the DACH region. The latter, of course, in relation to the English-language weather forecast, which was also only implemented this winter. Data is now provided for Scandinavia, the Pyrenees and the Caucasus, for which all known PowderGuide weather forecast maps can be displayed.
More areas in the east will follow in the next few weeks so that we will cover the relevant mountains in Europe in the future. The data for the EU (ICON-EU) has a slightly lower resolution than the data for the Alpine region (ICON-D2). The latter has a grid width of 2.2 km, whereas the ICON-EU data has a grid width of 7.7 km. We do not want to hide this fact and it is also recognisable at high zoom levels.
