Comment on Accuweather handling rain and snow differently
bonenode@piefed.social 1 day ago
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.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 1 day ago
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