Feature request: Mountain weather
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Hi, I love this app for wind! A lot of my friends also use this app to understand the weather in the mountains for snow sports. For this use case I think the app could be improved. Can you add a mountain weather view, alongside "Basic", "Wind", "Wave & Tide". Since the weather varies so much with the elevation, the Basic forecast isn't very useful in the mountains.
The mountain weather view should show precipitation as "water equivalent" in cm/in, rather than inches/cm of snow, and then also show the snow level (the elevation at which precipitation falls as snow rather than rain), which you should be able to show in either feet or meters. I think it would be nice to show snow level as a plot with elevation on the Y axis, alongside a meteogram and/or cloud base elevation.
This would be so useful for those of us who do mountain sports. Thanks again for maintaining and building this app!
Edit: for some examples of mountain weather forecast, see:
- NWAC mountain weather forecast: https://nwac.us/mountain-weather-forecast/3654/ or the UW Mt Rainier
- University of Washington Mt Rainier recreational forecast: https://a.atmos.washington.edu/data/rainier_report.html
- Mountain-forecast.com: https://www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Mount-Hood/forecasts/3426
These are all examples of the information we're looking for - the common denominators are water equivalent and snow level. Out of these I consider NWAC the gold standard for mountain forecasts, which shows pretty much the exact summary data I want to see in a particular mountain range or region.