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Snow depth
How deep the snow lies on the ground, now and every 3 hours over the next days, so a coming snowfall or a thaw shows as it builds.
What it shows
How deep the snow lies on the ground, now and every 3 hours over the next days, so a coming snowfall or a thaw shows as it builds. The readout also gives the freezing level, the height of the 0 °C isotherm: below it snow turns to rain and the pack melts. The snow cover layer shows where satellites saw snow; this one is the forecast depth.
Where the data comes from
NOAA GFS 0.25° global model (public domain), baked on our server every run; snow depth and freezing level on a 1° grid, every 3 hours ahead; values between grid points are interpolated, so a single valley or peak is smoothed out.
Reading the map
Dark for bare ground, blue from a few centimetres, pale blue to white around 30 to 80 cm, lilac to violet for 2 m and deeper.
Units Snow depth in centimetres (metres above 1 m); freezing level in metres above sea level.
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