I read on this forum that you could build your own snow depth meter.
But if you just use your rain gauge and heat it, snow is changed in water. It’s easier and cheaper. Does WD automatically transform units of rain in units of snow when the temperature is below zero degrees Celcius? (By exeample 1 cm of rain equals approximately 10 units of snow).
Thanks all.
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but it is not always correct saying 1 mm is 1cm snow. it is varying and depends also on the temperatures when it is snowing.
Mark
True on the variations. According to a NOAA’s report on Rain to snow, .1/inch of rain can vary to a .6 to 1.1 inch of snow. Density - powder to heavy wet snow.
I checked on it to compare with my heated rain collector to mearsuring what snow had fallen and it’s darn close. We had about .34/in of rain (per rain gauge) and about 4" (ruler measurement)of wet snow just last week.
Entering the data manually for me is better than trying to even think of a software that could do it. Just stick a yardstick or ruler (depending on what part of the country you live in) in a bare spot and watch it from there.