Several days ago the question was asked on here about the water
equivalent of snow. I said that I would look at what the FMH-1 (the
handbook for the NWS) says. It does not give a number. Rather, show and
other frozen pptn is measured directly (aarghh, in inches!) and
designated stations report the water equivalents (presumably by directly
measuring the result of melting a column of the frozen stuff).
As noted here before, there is no firm conversion factor due to
variations in crystaline form and the amount of liquid water
accompanying the frozen precipitation.
Jim
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