So that’s where the tipping bucket rain gauge comes in. Invented in 1662, this clever instrument doesn’t just measure rainfall; it records it in real time. Inside the gauge, a small, see-saw-like ...

It isn’t that hard to make an electronic rain gauge if you have a steady source of power or you don’t mind changing batteries often. But [Matthew Ford] offers a third option: a simple device ...

which rain gauge is the most accurate? Until we got this question, I didn’t realize how many different types of rain gauges there are, but the most accurate may also be the simplest. The key is ...

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[Malte Pöggel] thinks so, and this LoRa rain gauge is the result. The build starts with a commercially available rain transmitter, easily found on the cheap as an accessory for a wireless weather ...

NEORSD uses technology from AEM, an environmental technology company that has developed a technique using both rain gauges and radar, called Gauge Adjusted Radar Rainfall (GARR), to understand ...

In the inland areas (of Humboldt County), for example, there’s no automated sensors for measuring snowfall. There are some in ...