So in 2000 my grandfather asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I wrote him a “rain guage* that won’t freeze & break in the winter or a medium sized saucepan with lid”. So that started the engineer in him to design and test a rain gauge that would meet these criteria. Here are some of his plans and testing results.
Initially I would forget to record the rainfall amounts and finally the glass tube in it broke. I finally replaced it and started more diligently to record the rainfall. Here are the results:
So you can see we get roughly 67 inches per year of rain here. My grandfather died last year so I cannot share my results with him. What do you think he would say?
*I spelled it wrong on my note to him. Much better present than a saucepan, don’t you think?
Now I need to replace the waterproofing on it so it can stay in use for a long time.
