IrishRob17

That map is way off in my neck of the woods. It has me on the line of 4-10 and 10-20...I had .4 on the board as a total. Just look at the satellite in comparison to this map. https://www.weather.gov/okx/Blizzard_Jan2016#:~:text=Central Park%2C NY received 27.5,since records began in 1869.

0 for the low around 3am, a balmy 6 out there now.

-11 at home, KMGJ just up the road got to -13.

-11 goes in the books as the low (-11.2)

That makes sense with these conditions.

-11 (-10.8) might do it for the low, will know within the next hour.

-10 currently

These stations typically are a contained unit with temp sensors and rain gauge all together. You don't want your rain gauge under a tree not to mention the unit runs on solar power for the most part.

I've had Davis stations for the past 25+ years. I got the Weather Monitor II back in the late 90's. It was a good station but then after a couple tune-ups over the years I got the Vantage Vue. That's a nice little station but on warm low humidity days, in spring especially, I found it ran warm when in the sun. I now have the Vantage Pro 2 with a daytime fan-aspirated radiation shield, which took care of those fluky warm temps in those conditions mentioned above. I found the tippers to be good on all the stations I've had but I did notice in a heavy downpour that the tipper would appear to run a bit high when compared to the Stratus. I always figured that it was the Davis that was off but then last year I decided to pull the funnel and inner tube out of the Stratus before heavy rains and found that when measured afterwards the two were off by maybe two hundredths, if that. I was surprised by this and surmised that the funnel for the inner tube must be causing some rain to splash out and thus not get measured. Something to keep in mind if you leave the funnel and inner tube in during the warm season and notice some differences. https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KNYMONTG31

As for the 15 minute measurements lets la la lock it up! As for your records, I like the snow depth column as I just make a note in my comments section. On my spreadsheet I have columns for the time that the high and low temps occurred.

Well we know that the measuring of snow is the least accurate of them all. I have no idea what the proper way is anymore, I guess we go back to the 6 hour increments. I'm a snow pack guy anyway so that's a bit more straight forward. For the 2/1-2/2/21 storm I did an experiment with two separate snow boards next to each other. Here are some of comments in my Weather Log for 2/2/21 " 15.5" at stake, 17.7" with 24 hour measuring, 19.5" total measuring every 6 hours" That was a wet snow with temps in the upper 20s to mid 30's.

-9 (-9.4) for the low, up to 7 now.

It was too warm for here by 10-12 degrees, down to -9 now.

Perhaps but it’s up on the hill there, that definitely has an influence. With strong CAA I haven’t noticed it being too warm.

Here some other Davis stations around me, including their distance. I find mornings like this always interesting with all the variations.

-8.3 at the moment here

What's the verdict? I'm sure you saw above that I had only a .01 difference this time.

You betcha, see below, it's around $30. Everyone knows I like to bust chops but I also like to encourage and help folks with at least somewhat accurate measuring and record keeping. I can't stand the eye ball measurements not followed up with a real measurement. If anyone has any questions on how to use the Stratus just let us know.

Ok, CPcantmeasuresnowormelthisownsnowtotals I figured you'd be all over measuring anything and everything about snow. I took a core sample from the pack to dig a little deeper and got .48" Sometimes snow can miss the Stratus, especially in bigger storms.

Does anyone else measure liquid too? 6.9" here melted down to .49" We knew the ratios would increase as the arctic air moved in but that's an impressive average ratio of 14:1 for the storm IMO. 21.5" for the season.

Nice. Measured 5.5" about 45 minutes ago, light snow 26/24 here.

I measured 3.3" about 15 minutes ago. I picked up the bride at work, the roads are slicker than snot on a door knob, as my Old Man used to say.

7" over what time period? Did it change?

I like driving in the snow when the idiots stay home. I remember driving during the State of Emergency in Feb 2010 and it was awesome.

I have a whole house humidifier that does ok but still have one in my bedroom too. I'm sensitive to humidity either way, too much or too little. Things do look to be going our way and as you pointed out, with the cold coming in we'll have some snow cover to go with the pond ice. I'll have to look at the winds after but I'm guessing we'll get some drifting afterwards as well.