No qualm with this, and I agree....my point isn't that some folks are foolish for not agreeing that Wilmington has the largest cryophallic in the land, but rather that we need to have one universal method. Chances are that I didn't get the absolute most snow, but its even more likely that we'll never know because its apples to oranges and we need to fix that.
The problem with max depth is that you need to be retired and/or have no life to accurately capture that consistently.
Why are airports permitted to employ the 6 hourly method and not any other entity or person?
I'm sorry, Tom is a smart kid, but in a large event like that, peak depth is not an accurate assessment of snowfall....want to know what Is? The amount of snow that FELL from the sky...no $hit.
If they want peak storm depth, then ask for that.
Less than 32 is not the only way to lose snow to settling compacting...the high ratio snow compacts and sublimated a good deal in high ratio, protracted events.
Sell that to the LES guys who "get" 50, but measure 35.
This was a case like that, Tom.