Avy: Avalanche & Weather Info

Northwest Avalanche Center

About this app

Avy is your gateway to reliable avalanche and weather information, providing access to the Northwest (NWAC) , Sawtooth (SAC), Sierra (SAC), Bridger-Teton (BTAC), Flathead (FAC), Mount Washington (MWAC), Crested-Butte (CBAC), Bridgeport (BAC), and Central Oregon (COAC) Avalanche Centers. Stay tuned for an ever-expanding network of avalanche centers with future updates.

View streamlined, up-to-date avalanche and weather forecasts for your selected zone, use offline caching, and submit observations on the go. All the info and functionality you want at your fingertips.

Key functionalities:

Streamlined Trip Planning: With a simple tap, you can access the avalanche forecast, weather forecast, weather stations, and zone-specific observations. To minimize scrolling, forecast components are collapsible, and navigating between zones is easy.

Offline Caching: The mountains don’t always provide a strong signal, so Avy has integrated offline caching. Even when you're off the grid, you have access to forecasts, weather data and observations you previously viewed.

Observation Submission: Our forecasters rely on your feedback, and contributing to your community by submitting observations has never been easier. Offline caching allows you to submit your observation without connectivity and it’ll automatically upload when you get back to service.

Weather Data Optimization: Checking weather station data is crucial for understanding what you’ll find when you get to the mountains. With Avy, it’s easy to select your weather station and tease out the information you’re looking for.

Ratings and reviews

Great concept, and can't wait for them to get the bugs fixed, but right now it's not the most functional. Pages usually fail to load and often can't get to the details about current avalanche problems.

This app used to be good, but sometime over the past couple months there appears to have been an update that results in tapping not opening up the zone page. I have to tap dozens of times.

Glitches after first run everytime. Need to force close to run again. Hangs on loading info, but mostly from map it will freeze and not allow any selections/taps. Great site, app is very much beta.