Snow Grade

Forty inches of snow is a great year at one mountain and a disappointment at another. Totals alone tell you nothing. SnowGrade grades every ski resort in the United States and Canada against roughly 35 years of its own snowfall history, so you know whether this winter is actually good at the places you care about. Every resort gets a letter grade, A+ through F, updated every morning. An A means one of the best seasons in that mountain's own record. A C means a typical year. We never compare mountains by inches, because inches are not comparable. A grade is. WHAT YOU GET • 591 graded resorts, refreshed daily all season • A plain-language verdict for each mountain: "34% above a normal season, better than 91% of its last 35 winters" • Powder alerts when a storm is coming for a mountain you follow • Grade-change alerts when one of your resorts moves a letter • A 7-day snow forecast, the one…