It is the essential winter conversation, and one that will dominate the next few months: How much snow did you get? There is a reliable way to answer that question: a device called a snow gauge.

WeatherPia looks to sweep the global meteorological equipment market with its multipoint snow gauge. The device has higher accuracy than similar products from rival companies thanks to patented ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Rain and snow do not fall evenly across a county or a town, or even a neighborhood. So just the one or two official gauges in each town, do not really tell the whole ...

Mountains are barometers of climate change, but some of the simplest questions about them are the hardest to answer. How much snow coats their peaks and slopes, for example? And how do these frosty ...