Happiest Outdoors published a guide called The Best Weather Apps for Hiking that provides an introduction to some of these weather apps:
- Spotwx: Spot weather forecasting tool allowing to compare the forecasts of different models for arbitrary GPS locations (Spot = a point or specific location, Wx = short for weather).
- Mountain Forecast: A forecasting tool allowing to check the forecast for a number of mountains.
- Windy.com: A powerful and versatile forecasting tool that provides many different layers (Wind, Smoke, Webcams, etc) and that allows visualization directly on a map.
- Meteoblue: Similarly to Spotwx, allows to compare the forecasts of different models. Direct access to the map
- Copernicus Browser: Up-to-date satellite images that are useful to visualize the amount of snow in the mountains
- Accuweather: A fairly standard weather app
- Yr.no: The official weather website of the Norwegian government. Uses open-source weather data from a variety of sources outside of Norway.
| Location | Park | MeteoBlue | Accuweather | Google Maps |
|---|
| Canmore, AB | Kananaskis | x | x | x |
| Kananaskis Village, AB | Kananaskis | x | x | x |
| Exshaw, AB | Kananaskis | x | x | x |
| Banff, AB | Banff NP | x | x | x |
| Lake Louise, AB | Banff NP | x | x | x |
| Field, BC | Yoho NP | x | x | x |
| Saskatchewan River Crossing, AB | Icefields, Banff NP | x | x | x |
| Waterton Lakes | Waterton Lakes NP | x | x | x |
| Location | Park | MeteoBlue | Google Maps |
|---|
| Canmore, AB | Kananaskis | x | x |
| Kananaskis Village, AB | Kananaskis | x | x |
| Exshaw, AB | Kananaskis | x | x |
| Banff, AB | Banff NP | x | x |
| Lake Louise, AB | Banff NP | x | x |
| Field, BC | Yoho NP | x | x |
| Saskatchewan River Crossing, AB | Icefields, Banff NP | x | x |
| Waterton Lakes | Waterton Lakes NP | x | x |
