Glossary

Activity. Downhill, classic, skate or snowshoe. Each has its own score and settings.

Band. The word and colour for a range of scores: Excellent, Good, Fair, Poor, Skip it. See The score.

Best hours. The best-scoring 3 hours in a row today. See Best hours.

Crust. Snow that melted and refroze hard. See Freeze–thaw.

Factor. One of the eight weather measures behind a score, such as wind or new snow.

Forecast age. How long ago the forecast for a place was fetched, shown under its answer.

Freeze–thaw. The factor for crust and slush, over the day and the two before it.

GEM. The Canadian government's weather models, used for Canadian places.

Holding it back. In Why?, the factors pulling a day's score down, the costliest first. See The Why? detail.

Home hill. The place Today opens on. Set it with Set home.

Modelled. Worked out by a weather model rather than measured, like the snowpack.

Slush. Snow that melted and stayed above freezing.

Snowpack. The modelled snow depth. When it's holding the score down, Why? says Thin or Bare.

Surface. For classic and skate, a word for the likely snow surface, such as Firm. Not part of the score yet. See The Surface row.