Weather stations

[oldseadog]

Thought I would start a thread for weather stations.

Admin, is there a possibility this could be pinned?

What weather station do you have?

Questions and answers in this thread too?

For starters, I have a cheap Bresser Clearview station. It does what it says, but I am not online yet.

Maybe one day I can afford a Davis pro!!!

 

[maritimesbob]

I have pinned it for you

 

[Ljad]

I also started with a simple station: CCL Electronics W100 (roughly like Bresser). At first, I thought it would be enough to have a simple display to read all the values. Later, I went online on Weathercloud https://app.weathercloud.net/p1177361959 , and my interest began.

I also wanted to measure air quality at home, and then I bought a Davis Airlink https://www.weatherlink.com/embeddablePage/show/703ea31c092a4f0d88dbb705062d70a5/summary.

I can't set up a Davis Vantage Pro, but in the future I am interested in a Davis Vantage Vue. In the meantime, I've been practicing a bit with a Meteobridge...

To compare my readings I frequently go to Meteosource https://www.meteosource.com

But here is also a lot to learn !

 

[stanislaw]

Hallo,

I have a heater on my rain gauge which then gives me a rain value, in the winter. I was wondering what factor I should use to convert to an equivalent snow depth. I am aware that temp. of the snowfall, will affect this. I seem to remember the 10 to 1 rule, but that I believe is a very general rule which I noted on a US website. I am looking for something a little more accurate, that I can use with my weather station.

I would appreciate some help with this, I have looked all over and haven't found a reasonable answer.

 

[oldseadog]

Hallo,

I have a heater on my rain gauge which then gives me a rain value, in the winter. I was wondering what factor I should use to convert to an equivalent snow depth. I am aware that temp. of the snowfall, will affect this. I seem to remember the 10 to 1 rule, but that I believe is a very general rule which I noted on a US website. I am looking for something a little more accurate, that I can use with my weather station.

I would appreciate some help with this, I have looked all over and haven't found a reasonable answer.

Well Stanislaw,

There's a tremendous amount of research in the meteorological community about this very topic. The answer isn't that simple, but we've found that it's dependent, of course, on temperature and geography of a sort.

A general rule of thumb I use is 7:1 from above freezing to -2C, 10:1 to -7C, 13:1 to -15, 20:1 to -25, and 30:1 below that. However, that's VERY general.

The best way is to do a correlation yourself--measure and see how much liquid was melted from it at the snowfall temperature. Then go from there.

Sorry not to have a very easy answer!