Rain in a bucket?

[Egon]

We don't care if it is 100% accurate. All he asked is if it was fairly close.

And I would say he is close.

For the other stuff. Gravity pulls on the raindrops to make them fall. Raindrop size, wind effects, air resistance and cloud height determine the terminal velocity. The horizontal catchment should collect a representative amount of droplets falling vertically even if they have a horizontal component. If the catchment lip is tilted from the horizontal a reprsentative area is no longer provided. Both horizontal and vertical movement raindrops will be caught. All that should be caught are those under vertical influence.

 

[bcp]

Calculate the volume of your bucket
Calculate volume of a truncated cone and its surface area

Then find a cylinder height, with the same top diameter, that is the same as the bucket volume.
Calculate volume of a cylinder and its surface area

Or something like that.

Bruce

 

[bcp]

Do hills have the same rain per square foot as plains?

Does a walking man get wetter than a running man in 100 feet of travel?



Brice

 

[motownbrowne]

It was raining cats and dogs the other day, do you know how I could tell?

 

[motownbrowne]

I stepped in a poodle.

 

[jerrybob]

Up here it rains ducks and chickens......it's very fowl weather!

 

[Egon]

It was raining cats and dogs the other day, do you know how I could tell?

Sounds like the roof needs some new Reeds.

 

[GPintheMitten]

If you take a bucket and angle it 90 degrees in any direction, you will find that upon checking it, it didn't' actually rain at all.

 

[gwstang]

Oh Lawdy! Ya'll have cracked me up! I really like the "stepped on a poodle"...lol :laughing:

The bucket is about 10' out from the barn. I had a "rain gauge" some years back but kept forgetting to empty it before a big freeze and it would crack. I sort of like the bucket model, you know like someone asking about what size tractor to buy and everyone says to go a size larger than needed.

 

[Xfaxman]

-------------- I sort of like the bucket model, you know like someone asking about what size tractor to buy and everyone says to go a size larger than needed.

Ever see a rain barrel?