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Post by daylilydude on May 23, 2018 4:17:36 GMT -5
Do you use a rain gauge and if so, what kind... digital, manual?
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Post by farmerjack41 on May 23, 2018 6:45:54 GMT -5
Years back had a manual one, filled with moisture, froze and broke. Digital might be a good choice, but since we only get about eight inches or less per year, probably don't really need one.
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Post by paulf on May 23, 2018 7:10:10 GMT -5
For ten years I have been part of a Nebraska statewide network of weather recorders called Nebraska Rainfall Assessment and Information Network or NE RAIN. We record precipitation daily and e-mail it to a site for recording. That information is stored for anyone's use for averages, totals etc.
We were supplied with a nice manual gauge that has lasted all this time with no problems. I also have a gauge I purchased maybe twenty years ago as a gag gift but kept. It is a tube three feet tall and two inches across with a red float so the amount can be seen from far away.
I wish the gauges would fill up a little, we need the rain.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on May 23, 2018 9:06:08 GMT -5
I don't have an actual rain gauge, but I can eyeball how much rain I got pretty well from the before and after water levels in the pool.
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 23, 2018 9:10:40 GMT -5
I have a manual; got a digital several years ago, but sent it back, because it was definitely off, esp. in heavier rainfalls.
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Post by september on May 23, 2018 12:04:15 GMT -5
Have a couple of manual gauges.
I had a $100+ weather station gadget (gift) that did all the wind direction and temperature and precipitation, but after about a year, it only shows one temperature -40F below and won't measure rainfall either. The only thing that works is the indoor temperature, which I don't care about. I thought changing batteries might help, but saw that other people had the same problems with this model. Won't get another one, the cheap big plastic manual tube works just fine.
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Post by bestofour on May 23, 2018 12:26:08 GMT -5
Manual tube that I've had for years.
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Post by brownrexx on May 23, 2018 19:53:23 GMT -5
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Post by spike on May 24, 2018 8:01:59 GMT -5
OH Gosh golly! Years ago, on one side of me was Momma and on the other side was one of my Old Uncles. BOTH with rain gauges. Lord Honey they would fight over who got an extra drop of rain and who had a better gauge. Now keep in mind they were what 200ish feet away from each other. >,< YES I would sneak out in the middle of the night and dump them after the rains . . . or fill then on clear night . . .
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on May 24, 2018 8:21:43 GMT -5
OH Gosh golly! Years ago, on one side of me was Momma and on the other side was one of my Old Uncles. BOTH with rain gauges. Lord Honey they would fight over who got an extra drop of rain and who had a better gauge. Now keep in mind they were what 200ish feet away from each other. >,< YES I would sneak out in the middle of the night and dump them after the rains . . . or fill then on clear night . . . That sounds like something I would do. I was forever pulling pranks on people.
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Post by dirtguy50 on May 24, 2018 8:24:43 GMT -5
Manual gauge here. About every other year I will forget to bring it in before a frost. Bad things happen to plastic rain gauges when they freeze. So I get a new shiny rain gauge about every other year. Duh!
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 24, 2018 10:55:13 GMT -5
I've done that a few times too, dirtguy50! Last year my first freeze came when I was in the hospital - not something I was thinking about there! I have to make a habit of taking it down when tearing the plants out in the fall, and prepping for the garlic. By then, I'm really not worried about rain amounts, as it is much cooler, and I'm watering very little.
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Post by bestofour on May 24, 2018 17:31:22 GMT -5
spike, you’re so bad but I’d probably done the same.😇
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Post by pepperhead212 on May 24, 2018 18:48:13 GMT -5
OH Gosh golly! Years ago, on one side of me was Momma and on the other side was one of my Old Uncles. BOTH with rain gauges. Lord Honey they would fight over who got an extra drop of rain and who had a better gauge. Now keep in mind they were what 200ish feet away from each other. >,< YES I would sneak out in the middle of the night and dump them after the rains . . . or fill then on clear night . . . And then, if you didn't hear them arguing about it, I'm sure you would have to instigate it somehow!
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Post by spike on May 24, 2018 19:01:48 GMT -5
And then, if you didn't hear them arguing about it, I'm sure you would have to instigate it somehow! DUDE! These two were just horrible. Brother and sister at war in my back yard. You are cheating! No you are . . . blah blah blah. OVER CHEAP DOLLAR STORE RAIN GAUGES! My sister and I got beat for that behavior >,< And these two were in their early 70's gosh!
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Post by paquebot on May 25, 2018 20:19:48 GMT -5
Manual here, 5-gallon pails. If no water in the pails, didn't rain. If ½" of water in the pails, we got ½" of rain. Never wrong yet!
Martin
The truth is more important than the facts.
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