Daily weather/snowpack log?

[RegCT]

Anyone know of a good downloadable resource to use for logging daily weather activity, snowpack observations, etc?

Considering making my own on an excel sheet but if there is something already out there...

[_Aaron_]

There is a suggested operational weather log in SWAG... All the operations I've seen or worked with use some sort of excel spreadsheet.

[camlax]

do it by hand! really makes you keep track of the weather even on days off.

mine from last year.

[shafty85]

I get the max and min temp graph, sky conditions and assume the other is for snowfall, but what is the significance of the solid bars vs the empty ones?

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[I've seen black diamonds!]

^^^Wind min max? Looks like the direction is noted below.

[neck beard]

I've been publicly publishing mine in a very abbreviated form for a few years. It is just a table. http://steepdeepjapan.com/view/weather-data-table

To reduce duplication of data entry every morning, what I want to do this season is input data to a Google spreadsheet, then have that chart some series on graphs embedded on my website. So far it is a technical challenge for me.

Regct - I'll share the sheet template with you if I ever get it done.

[camlax]

I get the max and min temp graph, sky conditions and assume the other is for snowfall, but what is the significance of the solid bars vs the empty ones?

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max windspeed is empty, average is solid. dominant direction for the 24hr period underneath.

[shafty85]

Makes sense - couldn't (and still can't without knowing what it is on the phone) make out the wind direction, sorry.

So, the pink one is snowfall with snow depth graphed? Significance of the solid and empty bars in that graph?

Nice spreadsheet, neck.

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[camlax]

So, the pink one is snowfall with snow depth graphed? Significance of the solid and empty bars in that graph?

yup, pink is precip. the empty bar on the left for each day is the 24hr precip in cm. solid bar is SWEx10. Point of this is to make it simple to look at general snow densities for the period. if the two bars are equal, the snow is 10%. if the shaded bar is 1/2 the empty, snow is roughly 5% for the 24 hr period. shaded bar is 2x the empty, snow is 20% and so on.

makes it easy to pick out trends

also, red bar with the snow is the base depth, top blue and red lines are high and low temps with the horizontal pencil line 0 degrees.

if anybody wants to make their own, i can email them some better pictures.

[totaliboard]

http://www.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/snotel/...a/montana.html has always been my go to site.

[Johnny Casino]

Excel is probably your best bet. There's software out there but it can be expensive...

Check out Powder Cloud $69 per season for a basic package that would probably accomplish what you're looking to do.