Re: [pct-l] Snow-y-go-round.

[Brick Robbins <brick@fastpack.com>]

At 06:24 PM 5/4/00 , Middaugh wrote:
>My old climatology textbook "Climate and
>Man's Environment", basically says that 1 inch of water is equal to a snow
>depth of 10-12 inches, not 2 inches.

I think your textbook was talking about fresh, unpacked snow. We are 
talking about aged snow pack.

The people who actually measure the stuff in the sierra say that in late 
season, after the snow has packed, and settled, the depth to water 
equivalent is 2 to 1.

Reference the URL in my previous post, from the California Cooperative Snow 
Surveys:

http://cdec.water.ca.gov/snow/misc/density.html

Brick

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