Palmer Station Snowstake daily weather observations, 2006-present (ongoing).

The Average depth of the five stakes is now used for the Snow Stake "Accumulation" and the difference between the day before and the day of average is recorded as the New Snow. On January 2017 this new method replaced the previous method as it is much more repetitive. Old snow stake location: S 64 46 26.5, W 64 03 14.7 New (backyard) snow stake locations: - N: S 64 46 26.5, W 64 02 56.2 - 1: S 64 46 27.0, W 64 02 55.7 - 2: S 64 46 27.2, W 64 02 55.3 - 3: S 64 46 27.5, W 64 02 54.7 - S: S 64 46 27.6, W 64 02 53.9 DATA FILES Daily Weather Ob YY-MM.txt Date - Day of month New Snow (cm) December 2006-December 2016: Snowfall in the last day on aquarium deck hand rail.

January 2017-present: Change in average snow stake depth from the prior to the current day (cm). A negative change is recorded as 0. Snow Stake (cm) December 2006-December 2016: Depth of single snow stake (cm) January 2017-present: Average of depths from five snow stakes (cm) Sea Ice (WMO) - WMO sea ice observation.

These are WMO physical observations made by the RA and could be subjective. Comments - Comments recorded by the Science Tech/RA