"Philip Eden" philipATweatherHYPHENukDOTcom wrote in message
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| Agreed. 10:1 is a reasonable average figure for the UK. I don't
| think I had ever measured anything above 20:1 until we did a
| similar experiment on this very newsgroup during the very fluffy
| snowfall of 27th (I think) December 2000, when I measured
| 30:1. Last October's snowfall produced 7:1.
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| Philip
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When I was at school in 1963, we did a few rather dubious experiments,
collecting undisturbed snow from the middle of the sports field in different
sized containers (test tubes, mugs, oil cans, etc). Came up with a fairly
consistent figure of 11" of snow to 1" of water.
Ha, ha. Those were the good days, that is, when it snowed, it meant
something!!! Ten foot drifts kept the A34 north of Winchester closed for
over a week. By the time they started on it, the army took over a week to
clear 4 miles of it. It was completely beyond the capability of the council.

jim
Now in Northampton