From Portland and 4 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.
Hood sits nearly due east of Portland, so sunset is the safer bet year-round. The sun sets behind you and lights the west face. Sunrise works most of the year too, but near the spring and fall equinoxes the sun comes up almost directly behind the peak, so you are looking into the glare instead of the color.
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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.
49 miles to the summit. Its own stations, its own answer.
50 miles to the summit. Its own stations, its own answer.
37 miles to the summit. Its own stations, its own answer.
24 miles to the summit. Its own stations, its own answer.
6 miles to the summit. Its own stations, its own answer.
Which months, which hours, and why a grey morning in Portland can still be a clear mountain.
We read the cloud ceilings at the airports between Portland and the summit, the cloud layers at the summit from the MET Norway model, and whether that cloud sits below 11,249 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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