[wxqc] Measuring Snow

[Dan Crooks]

If your interested I have this post from another forum I frequent and it
lists an contact for rain bucket covers.

Funny you should ask.. I do have a solution that works for me.  the KAP.
> This is a cover (the blue thing) for the rain bucket.  It's used to cover
> the bucket during the winter to prevent accumulation of snow and ice.  This
> is  better than anything I have seen .  It goes on and off easily, yet won't
> blow off in the strong Iowa winter winds.
> IF you are interested contact .Chann Barnhart [channsb at execpc.com]
> directly



The post contains pictures but I think you would need to join to view them.
I will let you decide, here's the
link<http://www.weather-watch.com/smf/index.php/topic,11850.msg90125.html#msg90125>
.


On 1/4/06, Dave Helms <dshelms at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Darren,
>
> Pretty much, but swapping out a rain gauge will be expensive.  I know of
> one person who used a heated pipe wrap to warm up his gauge enough to
> melt the snow in close to real-time.  My Peet heated gauge has two
> capacitors under the funnel along with the wired AC voltage to drive the
> capacitors.
>
> Dave
> CW0351
>
>

Dan CW1789
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Browns Valley, California
http://weather.dcrooks.net/
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