Snow & weather diary
Record what the station cannot measure: snow depth, new snow, observer flags and notes, day by day, so snowy winters stop being a gap in your archive.
Most weather stations cannot measure lying snow. A rain gauge that catches snow reports a trickle when it eventually melts, and nothing at all while it sits on the ground, so without somebody writing it down every snowy winter is a gap in the record.
The diary is where you write it down. Snow depth is the headline; the classic observer flags and a free-text note ride along, because they are the same act: looking out of the window and recording what the hardware cannot. A station with a laser snow sensor fills the snow figures in for you (see Snow from a sensor).
What you can record
Open Diary on your site's dashboard and pick a day:
| Field | What it means |
|---|---|
| Snow depth | Lying snow when you looked. |
| New snow, 24 h | How much fell, not how much is left. |
| Thunder / Hail / Fog / Gales | Observed that day. |
| Note | Anything else, up to 1,000 characters. |
Snow is entered in your site's own units (centimetres on a metric site, inches on an imperial one) and stored in a single canonical unit, so switching your site's units re-reads your whole diary rather than reinterpreting it.
Clearing an entry removes it
Emptying every field and saving deletes the day rather than storing a row that says nothing. The list of recent entries has a remove button too.
What visitors see
Once there is at least one entry, a Diary tab appears on your public site with the last twelve months:
- Deepest snow over the window, and the day it was on the ground (not the most recent depth, which is usually the day the last of it melted).
- Total snowfall across the window, and the season's total.
- How many days carried each of thunder, hail, fog and gales.
- Every entry, newest first, with its snow figures, flags and note.
The tab is absent until there is something in it, so a site that never writes an entry never grows an empty tab.
Days are your station's days
The diary's days are your station's local calendar days, the same ones the charts, the almanac and the climate reports use. If your station is in a different time zone from you, "today" in the diary is the station's today.
Snow from a sensor
An Ecowitt WH54 (also sold as the LDS01) laser sensor that posts to your upload URL measures the lying depth below its mounting point. Pro Weather archives that depth and folds it into the diary: a day the sensor measured shows its deepest reading as the snow depth and the day's snowfall as the 24-hour figure, marked as measured by a sensor so an instrument's reading is never mistaken for an observer's record.
Your own entry always wins, field by field. Write a depth on a day the sensor also measured and yours is shown; leave it blank and the sensor's stands. The sensor's depth is also available as a series in the chart builder.
What is deliberately not here
- No backdated bulk import. Entries are added a day at a time.
- Snow is not in the almanac records or the climate reports. Those are built from the sensor archive; the diary is a separate, human record and is kept visibly separate.
Next steps
- Correct a bad reading: the sensor-side equivalent
- Almanac & records
- Tabs & panels
Editing stored data
Correct or remove a bad reading that is already in your history, and make the correction stick.
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