Even here, barely forty-five degrees below the equator, its natives measured snowfall in meters, and children born in autumn-as she herself had been-learned to walk before spring came.

Seidel's interest in weather started at the age of six when he began measuring snowfall in his hometown of Salisbury, Maryland.

The standard way of measuring rainfall or snowfall is the standard rain gauge, which can be found in 100-mm (4-in) plastic and 200-mm (8-in) metal varieties.

Rainfall, Snowfall Q. How do meteorologists measure rainfall and snowfall?

Other satellites can measure snowfall and follow climate changes.

As scientists refine the Grace data, they hope to measure snowfall and how much water it contains.

Sanitation officials measure snowfall at 19 sites around the city, while meteorologists base their data on measurements taken at Central Park, the city's official weather measurement site since 1869, the year record-keeping began.

As a boy, he would go out in the yard with his ruler to measure snowfall.

The standard way of measuring rainfall or snowfall is the standard rain gauge, which can be found in 100 mm (4 in) plastic and 200 mm (8 in) metal varieties.

To measure snowfall, Mr. Childs resorts to an established and homespun device: a yellow yardstick, stuck upright in the ground.