Should they be blowing snow right now? And are they?
Every hour, we check the weather at every mountain on the East Coast. When conditions are perfect for snowmaking, we watch who fires up the guns — and who doesn't.
❄ The full scoreboard returns Winter 2026-27
How it works
Conditions don't lie. Neither do we.
1
We read the cold
Hourly wet-bulb temperature at every summit tells us exactly when snowmaking is possible — Prime, Good, Marginal, or no-go.
2
You report the guns
Skiers on the mountain confirm whether snow was actually flying. Community eyes, weighted against astroturf.
3
We publish the gap
The Blow Score is one number: of all the hours they could have made snow, how many did they actually use?
The scoreboard
Two mountains, same cold night.
Same forecast, same window. The hourly strip shows each hour's conditions (darker blue = colder = better) — a green base means snow was confirmed, red means the window was wasted. Hover any hour for detail.
Tap a card and the whole season opens up: a Blow Score ring, how each tier of conditions was used, and a day-by-day heatmap of every window — kept or wasted.
WT
Whitetail Resort VAIL
1,800 ft · PA
Season Blow Score
21
23% of prime windows used
Prime
4 / 34h
Good
7 / 30h
Marginal
9 / 24h
Total windows
20 / 88h
vs Regional avg
58-37
5 straight nights of prime windows. Guns fired on zero of them.
Last 14 Days — Hourly Breakdown
Tap any cell for details
2/1
2/2
2/3
2/4
2/5
2/6
2/7
2/8
2/9
2/10
2/11
2/12
2/13
2/14
12a
1a
2a
3a
4a
5a
LIFTS OPEN
6a
7a
8a
9a
10a
11a
12p
1p
2p
3p
4p
5p
LIFTS CLOSE
6p
7p
8p
9p
10p
11p
Prime
Good
Marginal
No window
Confirmed
Missed
Sample data — illustrative.
Be a reporter next winter.
The mountains have the forecast. We'll have the receipts. We just need eyes on the snow guns — that's where you come in.