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Does anybody know where measuring cylinders can be bought for the standard 5" raingauge? Mine has broken on the end and I can't find any sellers. Do they still make these or does everybody use automatic weather stations now?

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Terry

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On 06/03/2016 14:16, Terry Holmes wrote:
Does anybody know where measuring cylinders can be bought for the standard 5" raingauge? Mine has broken on the end and I can't find any sellers. Do they still make these or does everybody use automatic weather stations now?


My glass measuring bottle broke years ago and I struggled to find a
replacement. In the end I used an old vinegar bottle (fits perfectly)
and pour the collected rain into a laboratory 50 ml glass measuring
cylinder and do a conversion (rain in millimetres ÷ 126.68 x 10).

I have also have an AWS but still take daily temperature and rainfall
measurements from standard min and max thermometers and a 5" rain gauge.

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Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk
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Does anybody know where measuring cylinders can be bought for the standard 5" raingauge? Mine has broken on the end and I can't find any sellers. Do they still make these or does everybody use automatic weather stations now?

Thanks
Terry


Metcheck stock them, in inches & mm http://www.metcheck.co.uk/acatalog/CM1013.html

Graham
Penzance
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On 06/03/2016 14:16, Terry Holmes wrote:
Does anybody know where measuring cylinders can be bought for the standard 5" raingauge? Mine has broken on the end and I can't find any sellers. Do they still make these or does everybody use automatic weather stations now?

Thanks
Terry


This lot advertise them. Not cheap though.
http://www.metcheck.co.uk/acatalog/Rain_Gauges.html


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George in Swanston, Edinburgh, 580'asl
www.swanstonweather.co.uk
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk
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On Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 2:16:30 PM UTC, Terry Holmes wrote:
Does anybody know where measuring cylinders can be bought for the standard 5" raingauge? Mine has broken on the end and I can't find any sellers. Do they still make these or does everybody use automatic weather stations now?

Thanks
Terry


Russell Scientific sell them:

http://www.russell-scientific.co.uk/...-jar-276-p.asp
http://www.russell-scientific.co.uk/...g-jar-87-p.asp

Dick Lovett


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On Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:42:46 UTC, George Booth wrote:
On 06/03/2016 14:16, Terry Holmes wrote:
Does anybody know where measuring cylinders can be bought for the standard 5" raingauge? Mine has broken on the end and I can't find any sellers. Do they still make these or does everybody use automatic weather stations now?

Thanks
Terry


This lot advertise them. Not cheap though.
http://www.metcheck.co.uk/acatalog/Rain_Gauges.html


--
George in Swanston, Edinburgh, 580'asl
www.swanstonweather.co.uk
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk


I finally had to buy one, the measuring cylinder I nicked from work having got broken. The price was ludicrous, £35 and that was a few years ago. One could probably pick up a dozen 100 ml measuring cylinders on Ebay for that price. Conversion rate 12.67 ml per millimetre of rain.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.
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Thanks for the info Nick.
Terry

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 14:41:32 UTC, Nick Gardner wrote:
On 06/03/2016 14:16, Terry Holmes wrote:
Does anybody know where measuring cylinders can be bought for the standard 5" raingauge? Mine has broken on the end and I can't find any sellers. Do they still make these or does everybody use automatic weather stations now?


My glass measuring bottle broke years ago and I struggled to find a
replacement. In the end I used an old vinegar bottle (fits perfectly)
and pour the collected rain into a laboratory 50 ml glass measuring
cylinder and do a conversion (rain in millimetres ÷ 126.68 x 10).

I have also have an AWS but still take daily temperature and rainfall
measurements from standard min and max thermometers and a 5" rain gauge.

--
Nick Gardner
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk


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Thanks for the information Graham
Terry

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 14:45:21 UTC, Graham Easterling wrote:
On Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 2:16:30 PM UTC, Terry Holmes wrote:
Does anybody know where measuring cylinders can be bought for the standard 5" raingauge? Mine has broken on the end and I can't find any sellers. Do they still make these or does everybody use automatic weather stations now?

Thanks
Terry


Metcheck stock them, in inches & mm http://www.metcheck.co.uk/acatalog/CM1013.html

Graham
Penzance


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Thanks George. I'll start saving up.
Terry

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 15:42:46 UTC, George Booth wrote:
On 06/03/2016 14:16, Terry Holmes wrote:
Does anybody know where measuring cylinders can be bought for the standard 5" raingauge? Mine has broken on the end and I can't find any sellers. Do they still make these or does everybody use automatic weather stations now?

Thanks
Terry


This lot advertise them. Not cheap though.
http://www.metcheck.co.uk/acatalog/Rain_Gauges.html


--
George in Swanston, Edinburgh, 580'asl
www.swanstonweather.co.uk
www.eppingweather.co.uk
www.winter1947.co.uk

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Thanks for the information Dick
Terry

On Sunday, 6 March 2016 20:00:42 UTC, wrote:
On Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 2:16:30 PM UTC, Terry Holmes wrote:
Does anybody know where measuring cylinders can be bought for the standard 5" raingauge? Mine has broken on the end and I can't find any sellers. Do they still make these or does everybody use automatic weather stations now?

Thanks
Terry


Russell Scientific sell them:

http://www.russell-scientific.co.uk/...-jar-276-p.asp
http://www.russell-scientific.co.uk/...g-jar-87-p.asp

Dick Lovett




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