Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

27 going to 47, heat wave!

YES! :thumbsup:

 

[txdon]

Well, Don, my complaints are not about the CoCoRaHS gage compared to an automated gage, but the things they could have easily done to this gage to make it better. Reading reviews on Amazon say lots of folks have trouble keeping the top funnel in place with more than a 30 mph wind. It sounds like they don't consider a loss in accuracy if the top funnel is laying on the ground, possibly in several pieces. I will drill mine and place a thumbscrew in place to cure this problem, but at the price they charge, it should be included. How about the top having a small pour spout to keep from spilling rain as you repeatedly pour it into the center measuring tube?

What I think is that I could invent a far superior gage, but if a cousin of somebody at CoCoRaHS makes the other gage, they would/will never accept it.

Jim, I have had 50 mph winds here and the top funnel has never came off this entire year. Since the rain gauge is emptied each day make it easy to remove if you feel you must secure it. Since the funnel is the same size as the base, if the funnel does blow off you still get an accurate reading - just pour the water into the center tube and record the measurement.

 

[wngsprd]

My CoCoRaHS funnel has never blown off, either. We've had a number of cold rains that froze in the gauge before morning and no damage to the gauge. On the few occasions we receive over 1 inch in one day, I use the funnel to help pour from the big tube into the smaller calibrated one.

 

[daugen]

this discussion on rain gauges is very interesting, sure learning something here and I think it's a core issue for anyone who works the soil or the forest.
It's not how much rain fell at the nearest town, it's what falls in our own fields that will determine how things grow, assuming no irrigation.
or whether our trees will start dropping their leaves earlier, because we didn't get that last downpour that dumped an inch of rain ten miles North of us.

I'm going to get an automatic one, but now I know what the downsides are.
we talk about the weather each morning, it's what interests us, so I think knowing the rain amounts
are really helpful. And that gurgling noise is the sound of Dave/Sodamo's excellent water tanks overflowing from the last twenty inch
storm he got.

 

[dave1949]

12*F and mostly clear. The low was 8*F.

Those nasty weather people keep shaving a few degrees off of our weekend heat wave. :laughing: Oh well, we don't really need a sloppy mess in the middle of January anyways. We still could get five days in a row that get above freezing.

 

[RoyJackson]

2014-01-09, 0855

4 degrees and clear...high of 21 predicted

Maybe snow showers on Friday, then a weekend warm up to almost 50 degrees!

 

[deerseeker001]

-17 this morning with sunny skies then we start to warm up over the next few days.Today we will hit a high of 13.

 

[Larro Darro]

Good Morning. 1020, overcast, 47* with 91% humidity. Forecast calls for a high of 53* with 40% chance of rain this afternoon, and a low of 49* with 40% chance of rain tonight. I woke when Margie was leaving for work around 0600. The downspout for the gutters is by the bedroom and there was so much water falling that I thought the rain had got here early. But when I raised the blinds to look, figured out it was just the frost on the roof melting.

I have the Pee-Wee football banquet at work tonight. All those little boys climbing the walls will have me climbing the walls.

Everyone have a good day.

Larro

 

[mostly_gas]

Good morning all. 21F this morning 1 in snow. No wind, forecast is for 35F and it will feel like a heat wave although 5F below normal . Back at work should get through time issues today and go back home and work on selling house.

 

[brin]

Good Morning. 1020, overcast, 47* with 91% humidity. Forecast calls for a high of 53* with 40% chance of rain this afternoon, and a low of 49* with 40% chance of rain tonight. I woke when Margie was leaving for work around 0600. The downspout for the gutters is by the bedroom and there was so much water falling that I thought the rain had got here early. But when I raised the blinds to look, figured out it was just the frost on the roof melting.

I have the Pee-Wee football banquet at work tonight. All those little boys climbing the walls will have me climbing the walls.

Everyone have a good day.

Larro

Larro....Good luck tonight...Get ready for your supper to be Popsicles and Jelly beans...LOL