I cut the top of a 16.9 ounce water bottle off, and filled it flush to the top with loose dry snow to let melt and measure. The cut bottle measured right at 5½ inches tall, once it melted down there was right at ¾ of an inch of water. That’s only about 13.64% of the initial volume, meaning the snow was about 86.36% air.

We also just got a weather update for our town, they’re saying we got about 7 inches of snow, which would have only been just shy of an inch of rain (about 61/64 of an inch), if it hadn’t come down as snow.

Edit: 7 inches ≈ 1 banana

http://bananaforscale.info/#!/convert/length/7/inches/bananas

  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Damn, i was not expecting you to say that much. That’s a good amount even up north for a couple days of snow. Not storm, but they’d put an advisory out for 7.

    Lol that’s funny, my grandparents dog does that