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davidtakac / prognoza

Libre weather app with widgets and offline support
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Rain vs snow measurements #38

Open 0-5-0 opened 1 year ago

0-5-0 commented 1 year ago

Can snow precipitation switch to centimeters (cm), instead of millimeters (mm)?

From what I've seen on most apps it uses millimeters (mm) for rain and centimeters (cm) for snow. Do the MET Norway or Open-Meteo APIs make any distinction between the 2 measurements for rain vs snow?

What I gathered is the measurement for snow would normally be 10-12x for the same precipitation if it fell as rain. I've been reading 16mm of snow and thought well that's not a lot (only 1.6cm) but then if you do x10 it's a lot more.

Here's a very brief discussion on the topic: https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/765/transfer-precipitation-forecast-in-mm-to-expected-snowfall-in-cm

davidtakac commented 1 year ago

MET Norway doesn't make a distincition, but Open-Meteo does. I'll see what I can do, this makes sense. Thank you!