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<\/a>This will allow us to more accurately track the benefit of the moisture we receive from snow.\u00a0 As you know from shoveling it, the moisture content of snowfall varies greatly.\u00a0 The white, fluffy snow that ski areas love so much really doesn’t do much for moisture as it only contains about 5% of moisture.\u00a0 A heavy, wet spring snow like we see can have 15% or more.\u00a0 On average, Colorado snow hits around the 10% mark.\u00a0 No matter how much moisture is in the snow, we don’t get as much true moisture from it as you may think.\u00a0<\/p>\nSo, when you visit our site and see “rain” during the winter, that is the moisture content of the snow you are seeing.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We are pleased to announce a new addition to our array of measurements – snow moisture content.\u00a0 In the past, moisture content measurements had to be done manually as the cold winter weather would freeze our rain gauge.\u00a0 As a result, we rarely performed these measurements (we’re wimps and don’t like the cold!).\u00a0 Now we … Continue reading Latest Addition – Snow Moisture Content Measurements<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>This will allow us to more accurately track the benefit of the moisture we receive from snow.\u00a0 As you know from shoveling it, the moisture content of snowfall varies greatly.\u00a0 The white, fluffy snow that ski areas love so much really doesn’t do much for moisture as it only contains about 5% of moisture.\u00a0 A heavy, wet spring snow like we see can have 15% or more.\u00a0 On average, Colorado snow hits around the 10% mark.\u00a0 No matter how much moisture is in the snow, we don’t get as much true moisture from it as you may think.\u00a0<\/p>\n