One inch of rain is in deed one cubic inch on the ground. A bucket with a surface opening and vertical sides of course will accumulate a hundred cubic inches of water when an inch of rain falls. A very narrow tue might not collect a drop of rain depending on random chance.
To increase accuracy a funnel shaped catcher is often used to cover a significant surface area channeling the resulting water column into a tall narrow tube so that the graduations can be spaced further apart to get a more accurate reading. An inch of rain may cause a rise of level in the tube of several inches making small fractions easy to discern. Snow represents usually 10 to 12 times the actual liquid precipitation. 1 inch of rain produces between 10 and 12 inches of snow. ----- Original Message ----- From: Roger Bachelder To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:21 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] give em an inch and I would think weight would come into this calculation. Roger C Bachelder 3rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of tunecollector Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 6:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [BlindHandyMan] give em an inch and I still won't know how much rain that is. I don't think an inch of rain constitutes a cubic inch of water per every square inch of surface. So how do they measure an inch of rain? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.21.8/1340 - Release Date: 3/23/2008 6:50 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
