Re: It's Snowing!!!

["David Amphlett" <dave_yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ok - would a combination of a parking detector on a stick pointing
down the the ground, and an a2d converter on the audio output work?

http://www.parking-sensor.co.uk/order/index.htm

hey that might also be useful for spotting rising water level during
floods!

Dave

(inspired by the "snow flyer" link that david ward posted)


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Stuart Grimshaw <stuart.grimshaw@g...>
wrote:
> I'm sitting here in the office, watching the snow, looking accross
the
> valley I can see the hills got more and more covered in snow. The
> problem is I live up on those hills, and I could do with knowing
just
> how deep the snow is.
>
> I've considered using a webcam, but it's a bit tricky to tell the
depth of snow.
>
> I don't suppose anyone does this already do they?
>
> Perhaps a moisture sensor would detect the rain/snow in conjunction
> with a temp. sensor outdoors would tell you if it actually was
snowing
> or raining, but wouldn't give you any idea of depth.
>
> Could you mount a sensor vertically, and as the snow mounted up the
> resistance would drop? How would you avoid detecting a drift as a
> massive amount of snow?
>
> You couldn't use a normal rain guage either, unless you had a heater
> element to melt the snow.
>
> --
> -S
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