incoming weather

[mike89]

red hair??   

[glenn57]

red hair??   

well...i reckon he didnt want to say female vigina hair!!!!!

[Gunner55]

Some light stuff as we were leaving GR around noon & it was a little more serious as we left DR again, but it was done by the time we got out here ~1.

[glenn57]

raining pretty good here now!!!!!!!!

[LPS]

We have had light rain on and off all afternoon.  No quantities yet but good to see.  Things are really greening up and saw more deer in the fields than I have for a long time today. 

[mike89]

yea picked up here to a couple hours ago, bird bath is full again!!!  wind seems to have gone down some too..

[roony]

Sure sounds bad in Iowa.

[mike89]

never good news any where

[tangle tooth]

      Checked our rain gauge just after 5:00 pm. Right at 0.6" of rain.

[Cooperman]

Just under an inch

[markn]

We have 1.4" here so far. A million worms out, only seen two nightcrawlers.

[mike89]

going with 1.4 here too... 

[glenn57]

i havent checked yet but when i let shadow out to do his business all my waterpails are plump full!!!! 

A hair under 1 1/2 INCHES HERE.

[roony]

Just a blond hair over .7" here.

[Dotch]

roony always gets more up there & not just rain! Storm total .44" at the ranch & .51" in Bugtussle. Supposed to hold off until the early morning hours & rain more tomorrow. Auntie Mar Mar's church has a meatball dinner tomorrow. Could be a nap day. 😴

[KEN W]

About 1/2 inch rain the last day or so. No more expected again until tomorrow night.

[Gunner55]

The neighbor's gauge had .839" more this morning than when I looked at yday ~ 3-3:30.

[glenn57]

i got back about noon from the new london hawick area......struck out on aspargus but good gawd is there water standing all over the place.  when i talked to my buddy.....they had over 3 inches north of Regal!!!

that should get boober on them sheepies!!!!

[tangle tooth]

      Anybody ever put up one of those big rain gauges that looks like a 2' long piece of clear 1-1/2" PVC? It's got big red numbers on it. For those of us that are visibly impaired.
      I bought one a couple weeks ago. Finally got around to putting it up. Just for giggles, I put 4" of rain water in our old gauge and poured it in to the new gauge. There must be a trick to reading it. The 4" brought the new gauge up to less than 1/2".
      What am I doing wrong? Did I waste $15?  I bought it the same day we bought our hunt/fish/trap licenses so maybe I was just in a good mood.

[mike89]

those usually have a wide mouth to catch more water, like a bird bath..   so it catches more water to make come out right...   so yes I have had them and they work good... 

[roony]

I was thinking the same thing Mike.

[tangle tooth]

      OK. Why does 4" from the old gauge come out to less than 1/2" in the new, big gauge?

[Steve-o]

i like those cause i can read em from a long way away.

[mike89]

      OK. Why does 4" from the old gauge come out to less than 1/2" in the new, big gauge?

as I said it's because of the wide mouth on the big one, it catches more water to justify the measurement... 

Rain gauge size determines the repeatability and also the accuracy of a rain gauge. The larger the opening, the lower the statistical error in measurements in real-world applications. Always choose the largest size that your budget allows.

[glenn57]

what Mike said!!!!!!

TT think of it this way..........the standard, small glass rain gauge is how wide on top, 1/2 to 3/4 inch and that size all the way down. so it doesnt take as many drops or rain to fill it up, on the other hand when you put a gauge out that is 1 1/2 inches wide.....it takes alot more rain drops to fill if, but is marked or measured to be accurate.

so......... if your taking an object thats say 1/2 inch in diameter full of water and then dumping it into something thats an 1 1/2 in diameter....its not going to be the same!!!!!

[roony]

Iffn you have a 5 gallon pail outside and it rains an inch the water in there will be an inch deep. Dump it in a rain gauge and I'm thinking it would overflow. Get it?

[LPS]

   

[tangle tooth]

      Got it. Thanks, folks.

[glenn57]

      Got it. Thanks, folks.

:rotflmao:atta boy TT........keep hangin with us....you'd be surprised all the usefull information you get and learn about!!!!!!!

[roony]

I knew I should have been a teacher