Drawn as the kind of place it stands at. 14 instruments in Connecticut stand at one.
What the snow tracker reads here
Every instrument in this state
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Snow on the ground
Station charts
Greenwich Harbor Precipitation At Grass Island Report
Rank 6 of 375 in Connecticut, Oct 16. The 247 rank orders a state's stations by their 247 score out of 100: how reliably they report, how accurate their readings are against a reference station, how their readings pass their checks, and how they stand against the forecast.
Ranking Statistics
247 score99.4of 100
Connecticut median
90.9the median score of 375 stations
Scoring higher
4stations in Connecticut
Sharing its score
66ranks 5 to 70
Points deducted
0.60.6 forecast check
Counted at the median
Accuracy, instrument checks, forecast checknot measured at this station; Connecticut median 100.0, 100.0, 94.0
Next above
HFDrank 5; ahead on median arrival 5 min 49 s against 7 min 48 s
Next below
MWNC3rank 7; behind on median arrival 7 min 48 s against 9 min 59 s
Equal scores are ordered by the share of scheduled reports received, then the reports due in the week (the longer record first), then the median arrival, then the longest silence.
Reports receivedweight 35100.035.0 of 35 pointsConnecticut median 85.7168 of 168 scheduled reports received in 7 days
Arrivalweight 10100.010.0 of 10 pointsConnecticut median 100.0half its reports arrived within 8 min
Continuityweight 10100.010.0 of 10 pointsConnecticut median 100.0longest silence 60 min, on a schedule of one report every 60 min
Accuracyweight 20-20.0 of 20 points, at the medianConnecticut median 100.0-
Instrument checksweight 15-15.0 of 15 points, at the medianConnecticut median 100.0-
Forecast checkweight 10-9.4 of 10 points, at the medianConnecticut median 94.0-
The score is the weighted mean of its six parts, from the last 7 days. How a station is ranked sets out each part.
How each part is scored
Reports received
Full marks for every scheduled report received, none for none, in proportion between
Arrival
Full marks for a median arrival within 10 min, none at 60 min
Continuity
Full marks for a longest silence of 3 reports or less (3 h), none for 72 (72 h)
Accuracy
Full marks within 1.5 °F of its reference, typically, none beyond 8.0 °F
Instrument checks
Full marks for no reading failed, none for 5 per cent or more
Forecast check
Full marks within 2 °F of the forecast on average, none at 8 °F
On Oct 16 the noon sun stands 40 degrees above the horizon at 41.01 N, and the day is 10 h 56 min long. Level ground there takes 64 per cent of the noon sunlight a surface facing the sun would.