Dear Jim,
Thanks for going to the trouble of looking this up.
It is rather academic here in Australia at the moment anyway.
We are regularly having days with a maximum temperature between 35 °C and 40
°C at the moment so questions about snow are a little irrelevant. Last week
we had a day when the temperature, a few hundred kilometres from Geelong,
reached 46.2 °C.
Thanks again,
Pat Naughtin CAMS
Geelong, Australia
on 16.01.2001 05.26, James R. Frysinger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
