Vail Mountain
Colorado · Epic
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Colorado · Epic
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Trail and lift totals describe static mountain infrastructure, not today’s open terrain. Webcam links open the official source; media is not rehosted.
The mountain is currently closed ahead of its projected Nov 13 opening. Mountain temperatures run near 57°F. There is no current snow report yet.
The mountain is currently closed ahead of its projected Nov 13 opening. There is no ski window to recommend.
Light winds expected
Verified resort report unavailable.
Forecast rating · weather only. Ratings represent the backend-authored median across ski operating hours, not a prediction of reported snowpack or operating status.
A reported base is used only for forecast hours within 72 hours of its observation; later hours assume 0". Not an operating-status prediction. Rating coverage: 7/7 operating hours. Snow forecast confidence: high.
Inspect forecast hours with Left and Right arrow keys. Home selects the first hour; End selects the last. The Now marker stays fixed.
The glacier-blue line is the atmospheric Freezing Level: the altitude where air reaches 32°F. It is not the snow line or a prediction of surface conditions. Snow can reach below it, and missing forecast values remain unavailable.
The illustrated mountain is schematic. Base, Mid-Mountain, and Summit use Mountain Mystic resort elevation references; they do not represent separate elevation-specific weather forecasts.
Mid-Mountain is a representative elevation, not a weather station or exact lift location.
Hourly Mystic Ratings describe forecast weather using the same MIE curves and rating buckets as daily ratings. They do not project reported snowpack, operations, or the full resort rating.
Past forecast is subdued; future forecast is solid. The dashed Now marker stays fixed while the blue inspection cursor moves. Hours use America/Denver; the selected-hour readout includes the timezone offset name on repeated DST hours.
24/24 source hours available. Elapsed hours are forecast, not observations. Archived forecast backfill is not a captured historical Mountain Mystic publication. Missing values remain gaps.
No eligible station observations are available.
Selected hour: temperature confidence high; wind confidence high. Snow level — · Freezing level 15,289 ft · Humidity 21% · Cloud cover 75%.
Weather modeled at 11,572 ft
See how eligible forecast models differ across the same valid times, accumulation window, and mountain elevation. This comparison is separate from Forecast Confidence and model Agreement.
Model range: low-to-high cumulative forecasts among comparable deterministic models. A narrower band can reflect fewer remaining models, not convergence. It is model disagreement, not a probability interval. Mystic Blend is shown only as a reference and can have one contributor where marked.
Accumulation starts Oct 7, 21:00 UTC and stops permanently at the first missing required hour. Daily checks complete calendar days independently. Totals use the shared accumulation baseline. Select a model total to show or hide its chart line; every eligible model remains in the table.
Mystic Blend can represent one eligible model family where marked.
| Date | Mystic Blend | ICON Global | ECMWF IFS | GFS | HRRR CONUS | Range low | Range high | Models |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 7 | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | 4 |
| October 8 | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | — | 0″ | 0″ | 3 |
| October 9 | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | — | 0″ | 0″ | 3 |
| October 10 | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | — | 0″ | 0″ | 3 |
| October 11 | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | — | 0″ | 0″ | 3 |
| October 12 | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | — | 0″ | 0″ | 3 |
| October 13 | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | 0″ | — | 0″ | 0″ | 3 |
| October 14 | 1.7″ | — | 1.6″ | 0.8″ | — | 0.8″ | 1.6″ | 2 |
| October 15 | 2.7″ | — | 3.6″ | 0.8″ | — | 0.8″ | 3.6″ | 2 |
| October 16 | 2.7″ | — | 3.6″ | 0.8″ | — | 0.8″ | 3.6″ | 2 |
| October 17 | 2.7″ | — | 3.6″ | 0.8″ | — | 0.8″ | 3.6″ | 2 |
| October 18 | 4.4″ | — | 3.6″ | 4.4″ | — | 3.6″ | 4.4″ | 2 |
| October 19 | 4.7″ | — | 4.1″ | 4.4″ | — | 4.1″ | 4.4″ | 2 |
| October 20 | 5.1″ | — | 4.8″ | 4.4″ | — | 4.4″ | 4.8″ | 2 |
All series use canonical archived exact runs selected under the same operational eligibility rules as Mystic Blend. Missing values are not converted to zero, interpolated, or bridged.