PowderCow
Snow alerts
We save your number for exactly one purpose: texting you when it dumps. No marketing, no sharing, nada else. Every alert has an unsubscribe link — one tap and you're gone.
About
I built this for me and my friends. We chase snow, and checking every resort by hand got old — so now one page reads the mountain weather and tells us where it's dumping.
People seemed to like it. So why not try it.
Book your flights wherever you want. But if you use my links (Skyscanner for flights, Booking for beds), I might get a small kickback — much appreciated, and it keeps this thing running.
No ads, no tracking, no nonsense. Just snow. ❄️
The Powder-o-Meter™
One number, 1–11, for how good it will be. Weighing seven things:
Snow amount. Fresh from the last 48 hours, at full value. What fell three to seven days ago still counts, but only a quarter of it — by now it's been tracked out and carved up.
Snow coming. The next 48 hours, worth half again as much as snow already on the ground. Snow you can still fly to beats snow you missed. Further out than that it's drawn on the chart but left out of the number: a five-day forecast isn't good enough to bank a trip on.
Snow temperature. −5 °C or colder is what we want.
Wind during snow. Calm storms build powder; gales build slab.
Bluebird. The perfect sequence — a big fall one day, sun and no snow the next — earns the biggest bonus on the board, worth three points on its own. Averages lie; timing matters. Twenty-five centimetres under cloud is a 7; the same snow with sun on it is a 10.
Base depth. Fifty fresh centimeters on rocks is rocks.
Terrain. A fixed editorial score per resort — steeps, trees, off-piste. Las Leñas earns things Perisher can't.
The 0. No base and nothing falling isn't a 1, it's grass. Bare ground scores zero however blue the sky is and however good the terrain.
The 11. 30+ cm across the storm — what fell and what's still coming — at −3 °C or colder, in calm wind, on a base of 80 cm, with sun on the way. It happens a dozen times a season — somewhere on Earth. When it does: sell your house.