BBCNEWS Weather World January 3, 2022 13:54:00
Countryside ranger here, so just how do you get an accurate reading of snow depth? well, first of all, down at car park level we have a stevenson screen. weve been recording weather data there since preโ1980, so we have scales, centimetre and metre sticks, to record the snow. but historically, actually, the people on the hill know how deep the snow is. sometimes you can come up and the hill is covered in snow, and then a night of wind and its been windswept clea n. it changes literally every d...
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