In article ,
Jon O'Rourke writes:
Some automatic stations do have snow depth reporting capabilities but the
additional reports from the public are very useful and a lot have been sent
through via the website again. In the past reports were phoned through
voluntarily so in that sense it's nothing new.

Entering something on a website requires less effort than phoning in a
report. From one point of view that's good, but it will also tend to
make hoax reports more likely. I would hope that some sort of quality
control is carried out on the reports received, but it must sometimes be
very difficult to tell whether a report is genuine, given how localised
heavy snow can sometimes be.
--
John Hall

"I am not young enough to know everything."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)