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. we've been recording weather data there since pre—1980, 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 it's been windswept clea n. it changes literally every day. so there is plenty of snow around at the moment. is this a promising situation for the start o...