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The amount of snow received at weather stations varies substantially from year to year. For example, the annual snowfall at Paradise Ranger Station in Mount Rainier National Park has been as little as 266 inches (680 cm) in 2014-2015 and as much as 1,122 inches (2,850 cm) in 1971–1972.
The same SNOTEL site in Nevada. The large panel in the foreground is the snow pillow. Basic SNOTEL sites have a pressure sensing snow pillow, storage precipitation gauge, and air temperature sensor. However, they can accommodate 64 channels of data and will accept analog and parallel or serial digital sensors.
According to the National Weather Service, the rainiest Jan. 24 in Cincinnati was in 1937, when the Queen City recorded 2.54 inches of precipitation. Record-breaking rain that month led to a ...
Solid precipitation A snow gauge is usually used to measure the amount of solid precipitation. Snowfall is usually measured in centimeters by letting snow fall into a container and then measure the height. The snow can then optionally be melted to obtain a water equivalent measurement in millimeters like for liquid precipitation. The ...
Last January brought 13.4 inches of snow to the city, more than double the normal snowfall for the month. The snowiest January in city history was in 1992 when 24.3 inches accumulated -- 13.8 of ...
A snow gauge is a type of instrument used by meteorologists and hydrologists to gather and measure the amount of solid precipitation (as opposed to liquid precipitation, which is measured by a rain gauge) over a set period of time.
DENVER — Denver’s weather will start to cool this weekend, while some towns around Colorado could see as much as seven inches of snow.Snow in the Mile High City is still a few weeks out, as ...
For frozen precipitation, a trace can indicate a very light accumulation, or it can indicate a larger amount of snowfall, ice pellets (called "sleet" in the United States), or other frozen precipitation that is continuously melting as it hits the ground. [2] A trace of snow is sometimes referred to as a "dusting". [3]