From Vancouver, BC and 5 other places. Read from the airport weather stations on the sightline and the cloud layers at the summit, not from a crowd.
All four mountains, a push when yours comes out. $0.99 once.
Join the iOS beta Android coming soonReading the airports along the sightline.
Baker sits ESE of Vancouver, BC (bearing about 120°), so sunset is the safer bet year-round. The sun sets well behind you and lights the west face. Sunrise works most of the year too, but near the winter solstice the sun comes up only about 6° off the summit bearing, almost directly behind the peak, so you are looking into the glare instead of the color. That glare window is winter here, not the equinoxes.
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Mount Rainier, Mount Hood, Mount Baker, Denali in one app. Picks the mountain nearest you, reads your part of the region, and tells you when it is out. $0.99 once. No account, no ads, your location stays on your phone.
The same sky gives a different answer twenty miles away. Pick your region.
69 miles to the summit. Its own stations, its own answer.
55 miles to the summit. Its own stations, its own answer.
66 miles to the summit. Its own stations, its own answer.
29 miles to the summit. Its own stations, its own answer.
30 miles to the summit. Its own stations, its own answer.
41 miles to the summit. Its own stations, its own answer.
Which months, which hours, and why a grey morning in Vancouver, BC can still be a clear mountain.
We read the cloud ceilings at the airports between Vancouver, BC and the summit, the cloud layers at the summit from the MET Norway model, and whether that cloud sits below 10,781 ft. No crowd reports.
Cloud forecasts stop being useful after about three days. A ten-day visibility forecast is a calendar with random numbers on it.
Different weather stations, different sky. The same morning can be fog in one and clear in the other, twenty miles apart. Each region page reads its own stations.
Wildfire smoke and haze can hide the mountain on a day the cloud numbers say clear. When the numbers are unsure, the page says so.
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