On 8 Feb, 17:24, Norman Lynagh normanthis...@thisbitweather-
consultancy.com wrote:
Does anyone know how this problem is dealt with in the automatic weather
stations in the Met Office synoptic network? Is the rain gauge heated so
that snow is melted as it falls? Or do these stations suffer from the
same problem that I have had with mine today?

Although we are a Met Office climatological station, rather than a
synoptic station, our rain gauge is heated primarily as a precaution
against frost damge, though the snow has quite efficiently melted
today as it fell from 0520hr onwards. Its readings tally very well
with the standard gauge with snow melted in the more traditional
method!

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk