Vermont snow and weather

Road weather towers

39 instruments/minutes

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Air temperature, pavement temperature, wind and visibility, placed where the road closes. The right instrument for a blowing-snow answer and almost nobody uses it well.

Data-collection platforms

19 instruments/hourly

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Shore stations, fire weather stations and river gauges on one identifier. Most of them measure the river and are never offered here; the ones that are published air temperature and wind. A platform that was quiet when the catalogue was built is still listed, because it remains registered with its network. It is the only shoreline wind this service carries.

Airport surface observations

11 instruments/minutes

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

The backbone. Individual sensors fail and the station does not, so every reading is published with the age of the observation beside it.

Soil climate stations

2 instruments/hourly

temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture

Air and soil together: temperature and moisture measured in the ground at depth, hourly, mostly on farms and research land.

Volunteer precipitation and snow observers

363 instruments/once a day

precip, snowfall, snow depth

The same measurement a cooperative observer makes, from many more gardens. Vermont publishes 363 of these against 29 cooperative observers, so on most days it is the densest picture of what is on the ground that exists.

Cooperative observers

29 instruments/once a day

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

A person, a board and a ruler, in the morning. It cannot say what is falling right now and it is the best answer to how much is on the ground.