25-26 Ski Season
Report Cards

How did 8 regions really perform this season? NWS forecast direction, storm rankings, and SNOTEL ground truth data — the numbers the resorts won't put in their snow reports.

How StormDrop Verifies the Season

We cross-reference NWS snowfall forecasts against SNOTEL ground-truth sensors at each resort. Six winters of that verification (~3,760 storm pairings across 10 resorts) found every forecast sits between the two honest ways of reading SNOTEL — slightly high against settled snow depth, low against fresh snowfall — so which direction you'd call it depends on an unresolved measurement question, not the resort. No resort currently earns a published direction; every resort shows as pending.

We don't publish a number we can't stand behind.

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