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Default Extreme rainfall Guildford/Burpham evening 7th August

On 8 Aug, 14:37, Tudor Hughes wrote:

A funnel stuck in a milk bottle is more reliable.


I'd often thought that too but never actually tried it.

Imagine a collecting area of one square metre! My goodness, you could
measure to an extraordinary precision. Now I have an old dustbin lid
that might do the job perfectly..... Rainfall measurements to .001
mms. Wow! Eat your heart out Met Check.

Jack


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Default Extreme rainfall Guildford/Burpham evening 7th August

On 8 Aug, 17:33, "T" wrote:


That could be it. I've been reasonably impressed with correlations with
other readings, but heavy rain seems to record 1mm at a time rather than the
spec 0.5mm.

T


Which would suggest that there is a design fault with all these units.



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