Peter Person wrote:Overestimated the total depth. Went around the yard in about a dozen different locations and we only got about 11”, still a decent storm.
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I'll start this by saying I'm from the south, not snow country and I grew up on the coast so that cut the snow chance down even more. But watching the weather channel before this winter storm for the Northeast I saw a lady on weather channel show the official way to measure snow fall. She said you get you a snow board, or a surface to clean off, a table of your deck or rail of the deck I guess would work. But she said you go to your board every half hour and measure it and then clean it off . Repeating this every half hour till snow is done. I didn't hear the whole explanation but from what I hear and what makes sense it's because that first snow is compacted by the above snow and will lessen the actual snow fall. Now this all really doesn't matter cause when you wake up with 12"s of snow it's 12"s bit I think this must be for the official records of what snow fell. This would I guess make it more even and not as dependent on the type snow that fell and how it packed for snow total.
But again this is coming from what I saw on TV with a guy who has only seen very limited snow.
