Sandia Peak Snowfall History

A few months ago I found out my local ski area, Sandia Peak, preemptively chose not to open for the upcoming ski season (2022/2023). It isn’t that unusual for Sandia Peak to stay closed for the season, and they were also closed last season. However, I had thought the decision to stay closed is typically …

Machine Learning for Snow Hydrology – A Follow Up

Overview Last winter I tried my hand at competing in a machine learning competition to predict snow water equivalent (SWE) across the Western United States. I learned a lot and created a two part blog series to document both the competition and my approach: Machine Learning for Snow Hydrology – A CompetitionMachine Learning for Snow …

Machine Learning for Snow Hydrology – Methods

This is the second part of my two part series on a machine learning competition to predict snow water equivalent (SWE). In Part 1, I describe the competition, as well as, my process for coming up with an approach for making SWE predictions at 9,067 locations across the Western US. That approach, sometimes called the …

Machine Learning for Snow Hydrology – A Competition

Part 1: Competition Overview Late last December I ran across a machine learning competition hosted by Driven Data. The goal of the competition is to predict snow water equivalent at high spatial resolution across the western US. I had never before thought of participating in a machine learning competition, although I had heard of the …