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Weather - Realtime Thread

 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead
Here's a real-time weather station display showing the last 24hrs weather stats. for the Aosta Valley - located in Gressoney (the other side of the "hill" from Zermatt). Precipitation amounts are (presumably) rainfall equivalents - ie melted snow.

Could be a useful thread if any Very Happy s know of other realtime weather stations....
http://www.regione.vda.it/protezione_civile/meteo/dati/Graf05.gif


Compare this to the week's forecast....



Avalanche forecast here

BTW: just checked on snow / rainfall equivalent
Quote:

How do you convert snow into rainfall amounts?
Since precipitation is generally measured in inches of liquid water and not in snowfall amounts, snow is usually converted into inches of water by dividing by 10. Thus, ten inches of snow is equivalent to one inch of rain.
Light and loose snow takes more than 10 inches to make an inch of water but dense and slushy snow takes less.


Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Sat 19-01-08 9:41; edited 4 times in total
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Meteo France have snow depth measuring gauges in various places, showing daily and seasonal falls (and other data). The link to our local one is here.

http://www.meteo.fr/temps/france/nivose/pics/SAISIS.html

It's updated several times throughout the day and seems extremely accurate. They must be careful to site them in places which give a genuine measurement, not somewhere subject to big drifting.


There are others, scattered at strategic points throughout the French Alps.
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
http://www.meteo.fr/temps/france/nivose/pics/BELLE.gif



Is the one for La Plagne (3,000m altitude at Bellecote)
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Interesting – first sunshine for days!! (see graphics at top of thread) so I now understand what the yellow bars are (sunshine minutes per hour)

It shows 10mm of precip at the same time, so obviously sun causing snow to melt into rain catcher (not 10mm precip = 100mm of snow per hour while the sun’s out – now that would be something!!!) Smile
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