Forecast Regions
We provide forecasts for most major climbing venues: Himalayas, Alps, Denali Caucasus, Karakoram, and Andes, to name some of them. Oh, we can’t forget the Cascades that are in our backyard. We can forecast for any region as we employ the latest forecasting techniques plus we are extremely comprehensive in our analysis.

Mountain Weather Forecast Experience
Forecasts for Jagged Globe, Alpine Ascents International, Berg International for their summit bids on Mt. Everest 2003.

 Forecasts for several parties for the summer of 2003 for the Karakoram

Lead forecaster for Washington Online Weather (www.wowweather.com) since 1996 in providing mountaineers forecasts for the major peaks in Washington.
Photo courtesy:
Alpine Ascents International

Mountain forecasting in Washington State since 1976.

Forecast for small private party climbing Mt. Hunter Alaska May 2003.

Scheduled forecast for a winter ascent of Denali in 2004

Published book with The Mountaineers Books: Best Rain Shadow Hikes: In Western Washington. This is a hiking book with extensive weather content.

Michael Fagin is the lead forecaster and utilizes several meteorologists with international forecast experience for assistance.

Forecast Models Used
The following forecast models are used to analyze the weather patterns of the major climbing region and prepare the weather forecasts:

European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)

Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS produced by the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center)

Global Forecast System (GFS) from NCEP -National Centers for Environmental Prediction, U.S. The goal of this GFS model is to replace the AVN and the MFR models.

National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. Used for Asian forecasts

 Global Forecast System-Taiwan Central Weather Bureau (CWB). Used for Asian forecasts.

Unified Model from the U.K. Met. Office.
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