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9 February 2018 - When It Rains, It Pours

Keep Tab on Local Rainfall With a Rain Gauge

"Everybody talks about the weather, but you can do something about one phase of it. You can record rainfall by putting up an inexpensive rain gauge in your yard and making regular reports to your local weather station, newspaper, or other interested organizations."

You can literally still do this today!


Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network

This is a group of volunteers who track weather and report their measurements.

What in the world

I would never have known this without Google. How did people in the 1970's do this?

Well the first known records of rainfall were used by Greeks around 500 B.C.

Rain and snowfall was also measured by Chinese mathematicians in the 13th century,

In 1860, British meteorologist George James Symons published the first record of annual rainfall.

Helping to track rainfall is great for collecting data on droughts, floods, or just measuring average normal rainfall for regular reporting and keeping up with weather trends. 

Our Homemaker Heroine isn't just excitedly checking her garden rain gauge. She is doing her part as a good citizen volunteering her efforts to science!

She is using a Tru-Chek Rain Gauge.

These guys have been around since 1875. You can visit their website here!

Here is something crazy!

The almanac give their address as folllows

Tru-Check Division
Edwards Manufacturing Company
Albert Lea, MN 56007

These guys are still in Albert Lea, MN

Good on them!

SO!

There you go! Go and get a rain gauge and join a world wide community of weather watchers!

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