Snow & weather diary
Record what the station cannot measure: snow depth, new snow, observer flags and notes, day by day.
Most stations cannot measure lying snow, so a snowy winter leaves a gap in the record unless someone writes it down. The diary is where you do that, along with anything else you observe.
Add an entry
Open Setup → Diary in 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 centimetres on a metric site and inches on an imperial one. Days are your station's local calendar days, the same as the charts and almanac.
To delete an entry, clear every field and save, or use Remove under Recent entries.
What visitors see
Once there is at least one entry, a Diary tab appears on your public site covering the last twelve months:
- The deepest snow and the day it was on the ground.
- Total snowfall across the window, and this season's total.
- How many days had thunder, hail, fog and gales.
- Every entry, newest first.
You can hide the tab under Website → Homepage.
Snow from a sensor
An Ecowitt WH54 (also sold as the LDS01) laser sensor that posts to your upload URL fills the diary for you: each day it 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. Its depth is also a series in the chart builder.
Your own entry wins, field by field. Type a depth and yours is shown; leave it blank and the sensor's stands.
The sensor does not have to be on the station your site shows. A Davis owner can keep the WH54 on an Ecowitt gateway posting to the upload URL; the gateway is added as a second station and its snow still fills the diary. If several stations have a laser, the one your site shows is used, otherwise the first of the others.
Not included
- No bulk import of past entries. Entries are added a day at a time.
- Snow is not in the almanac records or climate reports, which are built from the sensor archive.