On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 10:11:47 +0000
N_Cook wrote:

plus other reports of salty rain and deposits
from
https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/d/def.../complete.html
fascinating early science
anyone know how to convert lbs of water in their rain tunnels into
modern terms of rain gauge, and what was the pre-Fahrenheit
thermometer scale, includes barometer readings to hundredths of an
inch over that storm period , not that long after Toricelli

As rainfall is measured in Kgm/Sq.m, which is equivalent to rainfall
measured in mm, can lbs of rain be converted from that?

I've DuckDuckGone - not sure that'll catch on as much as "Googled" - a
little and found a few sites like this:
http://temp-scales.com/
One common theme is that although some recognise that Linnaeus modified
the Celsius scale to the one we are familiar with today, none register
the fact that he also changed the Fahrenheit scale, which originally
had the melting-point of ice at 8 degrees and the boiling point of
water at 53.

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[Retired meteorologist and computer programmer]
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