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

  • sorrybookbrokeEnglish
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    1 day ago

    There is also the issue of sublimation where a solid skips the liquid step and goes straight to a gasious state. This is pretty common in snow meaning some of that volume was lost due to sublimation.

    If you truly want to know weight will get you closer. Weigh the snow, then fill the container with the equivalent amount of water