Clean your rain gauges

[vince]

I noticed 1.83" rain here since yesterday in my CoCoRAHS gauge but only 0.5" in the VP2 so I did a quick check and found the weep hole plugged up and the rain cone half full of water.  

I saved the water in a pot and slowly poured into the cleaned rain cone and listened for the tipper.   Probably lost under 0.10" of readings due to pouring it in too fast but got pretty close.

Here's one place where graphs helped.  Look at the slow+steady rain accumulation all day.  No way it rains that consistently. A clear pointer to 'clean the gauge'.

I'll be in the db tomorrow zeroing out my ridiculous 48 in/hour rate that manually pouring the backlog in slowly created :-)

[Tom Keffer]

I ended up cutting off the handle of a tea strainer then installing its screen in my gauge. 

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[p q]

sigh. I remember rain.

Greetings from California

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[Tim Tuck]

LOL - you can have some of ours - we have too much now, the flooding is
getting ridiculous!

Tim on the East Coast of Australia.

[Graham Eddy]

please send some of it to here in *south*east australia, vegetation is crispy

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[Cameron D]

Funnily enough that just happened to me, but I lost a bit more than you.

The original filter went missing at some stage, so I also used the cut-off stainless steel tea-strainer.  That also went missing, so I suspect some thieving bird. The next one will be glued in.

A bit over a week ago I noticed the measured output fading away and decided I would inspect it as soon as the rain stopped. That was yesterday - and it had 3 seeds almost exactly spherical and just the right size to jam in the hole. I blame birds for that also, because there is no nearby tree from which they could have fallen, short of being in a cyclone.

The collector was full, and registered  a bit over 100 mm as it drained, which means I lost over 500mm of rainfall. Yes, last week gave us more than our entire rainfall for 2019.