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Old August 8th 07, 01:37 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
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Default Extreme rainfall Guildford/Burpham evening 7th August

On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 04:27:16 -0700, crazyhorse wrote:

Does the unit also indicate rain rate?


No unfortunately not, mine is only the cheap version.


Shame. A tipping bucket guage has to be dead level in both planes,
otherwise it will tip before it should on one bucket. This may or not be
compensated with the other bucket tipping later.

Might be worth getting a 10ml syringe and carefully measuring how much
water it takes to tip each bucketful and calculate the amount for 1mm (or
how much each tip is supposed to represent).

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