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Impressive Show Posted by Mark S on July 16, 2017, 7:32 am That was an amazing lightning and thunder show yesterday evening! The thunder greatly outperformed our local priest's fireworks. I felt bad for God's creatures who were frightened by the display, but I loved it and the much needed rain. Maybe Italy will pass a law requiring "silent thunder"......

Re: Impressive Show Posted by Daniel H on July 16, 2017, 7:54 am, in reply to "Impressive Show" How much rained did we get from that storm? My rain gauge was at 2.5 inches last time it rained, then evaporated down to 2 inches and is now at 2.75 .....so .75 inch on mine.

Re: Impressive Show Posted by Mark S on July 16, 2017, 8:09 am, in reply to "Re: Impressive Show" Mine measured .9 inches....

Re: Impressive Show Posted by Daniel H on July 16, 2017, 8:58 am, in reply to "Re: Impressive Show" I will defer to your measurement due to the flaky record keeping on my part. Although its not really my fault, why don't they make rain gauge's that don't have evaporation issues? Howie gave me this gauge but someone more responsible should take it from me and use it. I am only capable of the shot glass method There may have been a bit of this over your gauge though .... https://www.reddit.com/r/WeatherGifs/comments/6nll07/rain_spout_directly_on_this_one_car/

Spoiler alert Posted by Rebecca on July 16, 2017, 10:19 am, in reply to "Re: Impressive Show" Not weather monkeys... You can see the eave of the roof in the upper right hand corner of the GIF

But thanks for being our meteorologists Posted by Rebecca on July 16, 2017, 10:26 am, in reply to "Spoiler alert"

Rain gauges Posted by Daniel H on July 16, 2017, 6:22 pm, in reply to "Re: Impressive Show" I think I know how to solve the evaporation issue I mentioned, just mark down the day and time and then empty the Fing rain gauge. Then after the next big rain event repeat that process. One could even sit out next to the rain gauge with an umbrella and keep track of exactly how much rain we got per hour etc. But you would have to be careful that the umbrella did not cover the rain gauge or that the umbrella does not drain into the rain gauge or that would throw off the accuracy. I should probably DuckDuck this topic eh?

Re: Rain gauges Posted by Daniel H on July 17, 2017, 9:23 am, in reply to "Rain gauges" I did DuckDuck it and learned. I will start recording the amount of rain every morning as shown in most of these videos. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+to+use+a+rain+gauge

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