OpenSnow

Pros

• Great and accurate for CO, especially if you are able to travel!
• I still think it's the best available for most places, and definitely the best all in one option. I don't get why we are getting all this backlash to one of the least objectionable offerings out there.
• OpenSnow gives you the data skiers care about and it gives it to you in one place in a consistent format. My home page has my home resort first and then all the resorts within driving distance that I might consider hitting up on a whim....
• The expert meteorologists (Alan Smith in particular) are great and cater forecasts to things beneficial to skiers such as mid mountain accumulation, temps, wind, etc instead of just blanket forecasts at base elevations. Out of all the gr...
• No other single service has dedicated forecasters in locations around the world providing detailed local snow forecasts, specifically tuned for the ski resorts in that region, every day. Their automated forecasts are specifically tuned t...

Cons

• The best part about OpenSnow is the forecast discussion. It's insane to me that they still don't include error bars or any kind of confidence metric in their snow forecast.
• In my experience it's extremely optimistic and doesn't give you the granularity that you get looking at the actual model outputs on SpotWX.com
• I don’t mind paying for it, which I have for the last few years. I don’t like that they cut features and increased the price with a dark pattern. It’s disingenuous and deceptive, and saying “but the staff needs to get paid” is a misdirec...
• Parent context: I mean other than the fact that I already have one powder day and a few regular days, OpenSnow is a yearly subscription so a feature shakeup when most people already renewed the plans is the problematic behavior. Reply: M...
• OpenSnow hasn’t been good for years. The owner got greedy and paywalled almost every feature that used to be free. On top of that, they take sponsorships from the resorts, so the Snow forecasts are ridiculously inflated. Nine times out o...