Snow business

Ian McLaren (your article, 30 August) wonders about equating inches of rain to inches of snow.

By The Newsroom

Published 1st Sep 2012, 01:00 BST

I am no meteorologist, however in Nova Scotia they reckon one inch of rain would fall as nine inches of snow: they should know, they get plenty of both.

Graeme Lamb, Longniddry