I noticed that accuweather measures snow differently to rain. Rain is in mm but snow is in cm - that’s mildly infuriating to me.
I noticed that accuweather measures snow differently to rain. Rain is in mm but snow is in cm - that’s mildly infuriating to me.
Isn’t that just standard convention? Rain is always measured in mm, and snow makes no sense to measure in a unit as small as mm, therefore cm.
May be related to that rain is measured by filling up a measuring cylinder standing around. Doesn’t really work with snow as it takes a bit before it packs nicely.
No, as far as I know the convention is to measure by melted height. Although this may be more useful for actually understand how much snow fell. Measured by molten height, the actual snow is about ten times as deep
Edit: I could be wrong, but this is the way that Yr and SMHI measure things