# EM Snow

> Live ski-resort conditions, forecasts, per-resort snow-season recaps and mountain navigation across 5,100+ resorts. Data-driven, free to read, no login.

## Key pages
- [Resorts](https://snow.extreme-media.co.uk/resorts): browse ski resorts by country with live snow depth, new snow and lift status.
- [Season recaps](https://snow.extreme-media.co.uk/season?resort=106): per-resort "winter in review" pages summarising a completed season: total snowfall, powder days, biggest single day, deepest base, snowiest month, best week, and how the season compared with a typical winter.
- [Quiet weeks](https://snow.extreme-media.co.uk/quiet?resort=602): per-resort "when is it quiet" crowd forecast for the winter ahead: the quietest and busiest week of the season, every week scored, a day-by-day calendar, the quietest week of each month, and which source markets' school holidays land when.
- [Field manual](https://snow.extreme-media.co.uk/guide): how the snow data, scores and features work.
- [Home](https://snow.extreme-media.co.uk/): current conditions and freshest-snow discovery.
- [Resort pages](https://snow.extreme-media.co.uk/resorts): canonical pages use /resort/<cc>/<slug>.
- [Flyby](https://snow.extreme-media.co.uk/flyby): private, in-browser ski-day replay and mountain navigation.
- [Attribution](https://snow.extreme-media.co.uk/attribution): source, licence and provenance details.

## MCP server
- [Use with AI](https://snow.extreme-media.co.uk/ai): how to add EM Snow to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any MCP client.
- Public stateless Streamable HTTP endpoint: https://snow.extreme-media.co.uk/mcp
- Discovery card: https://snow.extreme-media.co.uk/.well-known/mcp.json
- Setup, tools, limits and write rules: https://snow.extreme-media.co.uk/mcp.md
- Step-by-step "add EM Snow to your AI" page for people (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, any MCP client): https://snow.extreme-media.co.uk/ai
- Tools cover resort search, conditions, forecasts, freshest snow, timing, season recap, reliability, nearby resorts, webcams, community reports, watch links, AI-relayed snow reports and reviewed resort suggestions.
- Cite "EM Snow" and link the canonical resort page in anything you show from MCP results.

## Notes for AI and search
- Season-recap URLs are /season?resort=<numericResortId> (for example /season?resort=106 for Chamonix, 517 for Zermatt, 602 for Val Thorens).
- Quiet-weeks URLs use the same ids: /quiet?resort=<numericResortId>. The crowd forecast is built from published school-holiday calendars (OpenHolidaysAPI, gov.uk bank holidays), official tourism-bed seasonality (Eurostat) and each resort's own visitor origin mix. It is a forecast of pressure, not a live headcount: nobody measures the queues. European resorts in the northern hemisphere only for now; a resort outside that scope returns an honest empty page, not an error.
- Snowfall figures on recap pages are modelled base-altitude estimates from the Open-Meteo ERA5 archive, so treat them as valley-level, not summit, totals.
- Each resort page has a "Signal" view carrying a per-resort seasonal outlook: an ENSO-conditioned (El Niño / La Niña, from NOAA CPC) climatological lean built from that resort's own ERA5 winter archive, expressed as a tilt in the odds (snowier, drier, warmer or cooler than its own typical winter) with the analog past winters and a leave-one-out skill line. It is a climatological lean, not a forecast, and never states snow amounts beyond the 16-day horizon; most resorts, the Alps especially, honestly show no reliable seasonal signal. This per-resort seasonal lean, deep-linked per resort, is not offered by other ski-conditions sites.
- The canonical domain is snow.extreme-media.co.uk. The same content is also reachable at snow.0-21.co.uk, but extreme-media is canonical.