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A snow gauge. 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. [citation needed]
Garúa is a Spanish word meaning drizzle or mist.Although used in other contexts in the Spanish-speaking world, garúa most importantly refers to the moist cold fog that blankets the coasts of Peru, southern Ecuador, and northern Chile, especially during the southern hemisphere winter.
A measure of 100 by 100 varas (Spanish) is almost 7000 square meters, and is known traditionally throughout Spain and Latin America as a manzana (i.e., a "city block"). As well, lumber is still measured in Costa Rica using a system based on 4 vara , or 11 feet, for both round and square wood.
Pages in category "Units of measurement by country" The following 81 pages are in this category, out of 81 total. ... Spanish units of measurement;
An Olympic-size swimming pool holds over 2 acre-feet of water For larger volumes of liquid, one measure commonly used in the media in many countries is the Olympic-size swimming pool. [47] A 50 m × 25 m (164 ft × 82 ft) Olympic swimming pool, built to the FR3 minimum depth of 2 metres (6.6 ft) would hold 2,500 m 3 (660,000 US gal).
When measuring snowfall on a snowboard, the snowfall is measured to the nearest 0.1 in (0.25 cm). [2] The snow may be measured as often as necessary during a 6-hour period in order to record the greatest depth on the board, since snow may both accumulate and melt during the same 6-hour period. [ 5 ]
Snow water equivalent (SWE) is the depth of water that would result if the snow mass melted completely, whether over a given region or a confined snow plot, calculated as the product of the snow height in meters times the vertically-integrated density in kilograms per cubic meter.
McDonald's sells Quarter Pounders under their original name in all English-speaking countries despite metrication. In the Netherlands and Finland, it is known as a Quarter Pounder Cheese while Sweden also refers to it as QP Cheese. In Quebec, it is called a Quart de livre