Meghan Collins, MS, Associate Research Scientist, Desert Research Institute
What is falling from the sky right now? Join us to hear about Mountain Rain or Snow, a project welcoming weather observers to help track cold weather storms.
It’s notoriously difficult to track winter precipitation in the mountains because it can vary over the course of minutes and across short distances. Normally, we think of snow falling at air temperatures below 32°F – but in the world of weather forecasting, that isn’t always the case. We can sometimes see snow falling at several degrees above freezing! And as residents of the northeast know, it can also be difficult to predict freezing rain. Direct observations, made by people, are the most accurate way to update the technologies that drive our weather forecasts.
