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Old August 8th 07, 10:35 AM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Extreme rainfall Guildford/Burpham evening 7th August

On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 02:06:40 -0700, crazyhorse wrote:

... my current theory is that the force of tipping in heavy rain causes
the 'bucket' to bounce enough to send it back to its original condition
- thus registering two tips instead of one.


Does the unit also indicate rain rate? Such a double bounce would give a
rate off the top of the scale or at very silly numbers.

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