“I quit corporate to do what I love…to come out and ski.”
February 13, 2010: Interview with Ramona from Plum TV in Aspen
“Not only is it informative, funny and full of all sorts of extra goodies (and more importantly generally very accurate), but Joel will personally answer your forecast questions if you post to the comment section.”
February 12, 2010: Gluten Free Snowboarder Blog
“I think the resorts actually do a good and honest job of reporting snow here in Colorado,” said Gratz, a meteorologist with www.ColoradoPowderForecast.com
January 7, 2010: CBS4 Denver story on ski areas and snowfall reporting
“I find the resort snowfall totals to be pretty accurate,” said Joel Gratz , a skiing meteorologist whose ColoradoPowderForecast.com site focuses on the skiing side of Colorado mountain weather.
January 2, 2010: Denver Post on Ski Resorts and Snow Reporting
…if you are a skier in Colorado, this is a must read site…
December 29, 2009: Brad Feld's blog "Feld Thoughts"
And that’s the whole point of the Colorado Powder Forecast: letting skiers and snowboarders know when and where to find the best powder around the state.
December 22, 2009: The Boulder Daily Camera
To help ensure you don’t miss the next Colorado powder day take a moment and bookmark ColoradoPowderForecast.com. The site is run by Boulder-based meteorologist Joel Gratz…
December 14, 2009: AOL Insider's Tripvine
CO skiers know how fickle our storms can be, and this website seeks to make a little more sense of it all. Check out the “education” tab, for starters, to get up to speed. I’ve learned a lot over the years reading NOAA’s forecast discussion, but this site was a lot easier to understand. Perhaps the best part of the posts is the humor, though- the last couple of posts featured cheerleaders cheering on the oncoming storm, and a Dalmatian representing how spotty the storm was.
December 10, 2009: Frank Konsella's Backcountry Skiing Blog
Colorado Powder Forecast – This site is run by an actual meteorologist and powder enthusiast Joel Gratz. Each week he issues an entertaining report giving a skiing specific forecast of where the powder will be falling in CO.
December 8, 2009: DPS Skis Blog
Boulder, Colorado-based Serac Adventure Film School offers courses in the Himalayas, Antarctica, and for those seeking a more domestic program, the Colorado backcountry. This year we have some really interesting guests, including Colorado Powder Forecast website creator Joel Gratz, NOLS guide Phil Henderson, and avalanche safety expert Tim Brown in the mix.
-via Michael Brown, Emmy-award winning director for Serac FilmsDecember 1, 2009: Skiing Magazine - Make your own adventure ski film
New Colorado weather site provides pow forecast and chuckles. Colorado local Joel Gratz wants to help you find the best weather for your outdoor fun. As a meteorologist and powder hound (and former Penn State ski teamer), Joel has started up www.ColoradoPowderForecast.com to provide more weather and snow insight than the typical weatherman babble.
-Bruce Edgerly, VP for BackcountryAccess.comNovember 30, 2009: BackcountryAccess.com Blog
I’ve recently been turned on to coloradopowderforecast.com and I have to say this is a very accurate forecast. [...] The great thing about this site is that they focus on the conditions in the mountains where we need the info the most. I could care less what the weather in Denver and the Springs will be, which is what the news cares about because that’s where their advertising dollars are.
-Frtiz SperryNovember 20, 2009: Makingturns.com
Big news in Colorado weather forecasting for skiers is that powder prognosticator Joel Gratz now has his website up. Check it out. Joel is not only a good writer, but he’s managed to tie being a humorous weatherman with forecasting specific to winter storm skiing. Since we all live for the storms, he’s the man.
-Lou DawsonNovember 13, 2009: Wild snow, Lou Dawson Backcountry Skiing Blog
His unique weather and storm forecasts don’t villainize the bad weather like typical meteorologists and helps to answer the truly important weather questions of when and where the skiing’s going to be best.
-Ted MahonOctober 29, 2009: Stuck in the Rockies
Forever in search of the perfect storm, however imperfect, ESPN Freeskiing perked up this morning when an email showed up from Joel Gratz. It was 10:08 a.m. Aspen time.
Three hours later it started snowing. At 3 p.m., the Colorado Department of Transportation closed Independence Pass “temporarily,” which here sometimes translates to “all winter.”
-Tim MutrieOctober 27, 2009: ESPN Freeskiing Blog
And in a departure to the standard meteorological, ‘beyond reproach’ style forecasting, Joel even offers up his own analysis of correct versus incorrect forecasting of previous updates. An honest weatherman you say? How refreshing. After a few forecasts were called with a good amount of accuracy, I thought Joel and his email were worth mentioning. Sorry Jim Cantore, there’s a new guy in town.
-Ted MahonJanuary 6, 2009: Stuck in the Rockies
