Veabird: ski & beach trip planner

Full conditions for one beach resort on one date: 0-100 beach score with per-metric scores, sargassum, weather, water temperature, waves and rip currents, UV, crowds, hurricane risk, holidays. For today, also live conditions and alerts. Days 0-15 are forecasts, later dates climate outlooks.

For a beach resort and date (within 16 days), nearby resorts with a meaningfully higher beach score: swap suggestions when sargassum or weather is bad.

Pre-filled flight searches from the traveler's home airport to the best gateway airports for a ski or beach resort (or any airport code), with the drive from each airport to the resort.

Places to stay near a ski or beach resort (or any 'lat,lon') for given dates and party: live nightly prices, ratings and photos where available, filtered by budget, homes from local property managers booked direct (no booking-site fee) where Veabird has them, plus hotel and vacation-rental searches.

Ranks ski resorts for one traveler or group: terrain that fits their ability (beginner/intermediate/advanced/expert, or a mixed group), snow and crowds for their dates, travel from their home airport or city (drive or fly), and their Epic/Ikon pass. Returns the reasons for each pick plus lodging, flight and rental links. Use for 'where should I ski' questions.

How accurate Veabird's point forecast has been against weather-station measurements, compared with the single-model forecast typical weather apps show: average error of the daily high and low by days ahead, and the Brier score of the rain/snow chance, at a fixed panel of stations (mountains, coasts, inland), scored without using the station being scored.

Active Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes (NOAA NHC) with position, intensity and track, and which Veabird beach resorts are threatened.

Weather months ahead for an exact location, as probabilities: for each month the chance of a below-, near- or above-normal temperature and precipitation (from ECMWF's SEAS5 seasonal forecast and, in the US, NOAA CPC's official outlook, over a 35-year local climate record with the warming trend), the expected and normal highs and lows, wet and snow days; for a specific date, the likely high and low and the chance of rain, snow, a freezing night or a hot day. Also the next 6 weeks as weekly odds.

Everything to book one trip to a ski or beach resort: conditions for the dates, places to stay (live nightly prices with photos where available, plus rental and hotel searches), flights from the traveler's airport to the best gateway, and extras (lift tickets, ski rentals, tours, car hire, insurance).

Day-by-day weather (up to 16 days) for an exact location and elevation, more accurate than a single-model app: every major model (ECMWF, NOAA NBM/GFS/HRRR, UK Met Office, ICON, GEM, Meteo-France, JMA) run at the spot's own elevation, corrected for each model's recent error at the nearest weather stations, blended by recent accuracy, with rain, snow and temperature-range probabilities from 82 ensemble members. Each day also shows what a typical weather app says, for comparison.

For a vacation rental or hotel owner: how busy each night will be around their property for the next weeks (concerts, festivals, carnivals, conventions, pro and college home games, public holidays and long weekends, weekends), compared with a typical night there. With their calendar's iCal export link (Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Hostaway, Guesty, OwnerRez...) it marks booked and open nights; with their nightly rate it flags nights priced too low for the demand and suggests a range. Use when a host asks whether their price is too low, what's happening in town, or when to raise rates.

Rank beach resorts by 0-100 beach score for a date, optionally within a region, island or country, or a radius around a resort. With `from`, also gives each resort's airports and a flight search. Use for 'where should I go to the beach' questions.

Sargassum (seaweed) outlook for a beach resort: the next 16 days in detail plus a weekly outlook for coming months, barrier and cleanup programs, and the model's source and held-out skill.

How well Veabird's sargassum model performs on held-out years (AUC, Brier score, calibration) versus baselines.

Search Veabird's 1,400+ beach resorts (Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Mexico's Pacific coast, Hawaii) by name, town, island, region or country. Returns ids, today's headline conditions, photos and page links.

Search Veabird's 317 ski resorts by name, country, state or range, optionally only those on a pass. Returns ids, terrain mix, passes, gateway airports and forecast links.

Today's 0-100 'ski today' score (fresh snow, base depth, weather, crowds), the next 7 days of summit snowfall and temperature, crowd outlook, terrain mix, passes and gateway airport for one ski resort.

High and low tide times and heights at a beach resort for the next days (Open-Meteo sea level model, heights relative to mean sea level).

US State Department travel advisory level (1-4) and summary for a country or a beach resort's country, plus Veabird's local safety notes.