Accuweather is the cancer of the meteorology community. They spend a shitload of money lobbying to privatize public weather data. All my homies hate AccuWeather.

This is how it always is and has been. One mm of rain is roughly equivalent to one cm of snow.

Isn't that because it's different measurement techniques? Mm rain is measured in a standardized meteorological cylinder contraption. If snow is measured in one of these cylinders they do mm of meltwater if I remember correctly. The centimeters are the height of the snow cover on the ground if it doesn't melt right away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_(unit)

Britain

Main article: English units of measurement

A digit (lat. digitus, "finger"), when used as a unit of length, is usually a sixteenth of a foot or 3/4" (1.905 cm for the international inch).[6] The width of an adult human male finger tip is indeed about 2 centimetres.

Full standardization on decidigits it is!

This is normal.

Guess you don’t see snow very often?

At least it’s all metric so it’s only mildly infuriating and not useless

They also like to downgrade whichever paid version of the app you have every couple of years and introduce a new extra-premium-plus-pro tier. Accurate predictions but scammy bullshitters selling it. Weawow can use same prediction models without rewarding bait-and-switch assholes.

It's called science. The weather office in my country measures the precipitation the same way.

Agreed all, I think if snow was inches it would edge it beyond mildly infuriating :)

I'd not considered protocol but did calm down quickly when you appreciate that some places can get a large volume of snow so using a larger scale is reasonable.