I noticed that accuweather measures snow differently to rain. Rain is in mm but snow is in cm - that’s mildly infuriating to me.
It makes sense, though.
It’s a different measurement for a different type of precipitation.
And snow has about 1/10 the density of water on average, so going from mm to cm makes sense.Isn’t that just standard convention? Rain is always measured in mm, and snow makes no sense to measure in a unit as small as mm, therefore cm.
May be related to that rain is measured by filling up a measuring cylinder standing around. Doesn’t really work with snow as it takes a bit before it packs nicely.
This is how it always is and has been. One mm of rain is roughly equivalent to one cm of snow.
This is normal.
Guess you don’t see snow very often?
No, not often at all. Sounds like I’m mildly ignorant rather than it being mildlyinfuriating
Accuweather is the cancer of the meteorology community. They spend a shitload of money lobbying to privatize public weather data. All my homies hate AccuWeather.
Today I learnt! Will look for a non US one to switch to as slowly doing that anyway. Thanks
I’d recommend weawow, it’s what I normally use. You can choose a source for your weather data, rather than just being stuck with whatever the developer chooses. Weather underground is okay. It used to be a lot better before IBM bought them out, but the UI isn’t too terrible. Carrot is also somewhat decent from what I remember.
If you need a rock solid radar app, radarscope is phenomenal. If you’re into viewing predictive model data, flowx is probably my most used weather app during non-tornado season.
Bloody hell, that weawow is nice hey. Thanks for the recommendation
