boring & stupid weather question

suns rival
suns rival Posts: 15,926
edited February 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
another question from yours truly. :)

they measure amount of rainfall in inches. how do they do it? how do i know if it is an inch of rain or something?

damn it....
scratching my butt...
kinakamot ang aking puwit...
me rascando pompis...
krap mijn reet...
boku no ketsuoana o kizu...
bahrosh teezy...
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  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    suns rival wrote:
    another question from yours truly. :)

    they measure amount of rainfall in inches. how do they do it? how do i know if it is an inch of rain or something?

    damn it....

    lol, I was just wondering about this today!!!

    also at lunch today we were trying to figure out how they know how many calories a certain food has.
  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    I think I've always just imagined that the national weather service has like an official rain-catching bucket to determine the amount of rain. :D
  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    Brain of J.Lo wrote:
    I think I've always just imagined that the national weather service has like an official rain-catching bucket to determine the amount of rain. :D

    that's the thing, how big is the bucket? rain would have to be measured in 3 dimensional volume, not one dimensional inches.
  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    that's the thing, how big is the bucket? rain would have to be measured in 3 dimensional volume, not one dimensional inches.

    :confused:

    I don't know. I'm baffled. :D
  • suns rival
    suns rival Posts: 15,926
    come on guys. im serious. :)
    scratching my butt...
    kinakamot ang aking puwit...
    me rascando pompis...
    krap mijn reet...
    boku no ketsuoana o kizu...
    bahrosh teezy...
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    rain gauges. :)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_gauge
    NOPE!!!

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  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    suns rival wrote:
    come on guys. im serious. :)

    so am I!
  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    suns rival wrote:
    come on guys. im serious. :)

    I'm sort of serious too...sadly. :D
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    suns rival wrote:
    come on guys. im serious. :)


    what are we your own personal google?!?!! ;):D

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_gauge
  • GreenTeaDisease
    GreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    cutback wrote:
    what are we your own personal google?!?!! ;):D

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_gauge

    it still doesn't make sense though, that rain gauge is measuring volume, you can't express it in inches!
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    lol, I was just wondering about this today!!!

    also at lunch today we were trying to figure out how they know how many calories a certain food has.

    :)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
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  • suns rival
    suns rival Posts: 15,926
    just too lazy to search the topics.
    scratching my butt...
    kinakamot ang aking puwit...
    me rascando pompis...
    krap mijn reet...
    boku no ketsuoana o kizu...
    bahrosh teezy...
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    it still doesn't make sense though, that rain gauge is measuring volume, you can't express it in inches!

    because they can't measure volume, so they measure depth.
    NOPE!!!

    *~You're IT Bert!~*

    Hold on to the thread
    The currents will shift
  • ClimberInOz
    ClimberInOz Posts: 216
    Think of it this way. If you were to replace your town with a big sheet of plastic and prevent any runoff, an inch of rain would mean that there would be an inch of water on your plastic sheet.

    It doesn't matter how big your measuring device is, as long as its sides are paralell. Whatever depth the rain fills it up to, is how much rain has fallen.
  • Lesbelges
    Lesbelges Posts: 434
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    that's the thing, how big is the bucket? rain would have to be measured in 3 dimensional volume, not one dimensional inches.


    No, inches works fine since it's dependent on the area of the bucket. A narrow bucket will have less rain fall into it while a wide bucket will have more rain fall into it. The narrow bucket which fills up faster but receives less rain will fill up at the same rate as the wide bucket which requires more rain to fill up the same height! There you go, hope it makes sense!! :)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    ClimberInOz wrote:
    Think of it this way. If you were to replace your town with a big sheet of plastic and prevent any runoff, an inch of rain would mean that there would be an inch of water on your plastic sheet.

    It doesn't matter how big your measuring device is, as long as its sides are paralell. Whatever depth the rain fills it up to, is how much rain has fallen.

    Thank goodness you're here! :D

    I've got no idea really! :)
    NOPE!!!

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    The currents will shift
  • suns rival
    suns rival Posts: 15,926
    ClimberInOz wrote:
    Think of it this way. If you were to replace your town with a big sheet of plastic and prevent any runoff, an inch of rain would mean that there would be an inch of water on your plastic sheet.

    It doesn't matter how big your measuring device is, as long as its sides are paralell. Whatever depth the rain fills it up to, is how much rain has fallen.

    whew! i am enlightened again. :)
    scratching my butt...
    kinakamot ang aking puwit...
    me rascando pompis...
    krap mijn reet...
    boku no ketsuoana o kizu...
    bahrosh teezy...
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    GreenTeaDisease wrote:
    it still doesn't make sense though, that rain gauge is measuring volume, you can't express it in inches!


    whadda want from me? i'm not johnny mountain* over here....:p :D:D






    * - yep real weatherman.....been on the air in la for 30 years....:)
  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    cutback wrote:
    whadda want from me? i'm not johnny mountain* over here....:p :D:D






    * - yep real weatherman.....been on the air in la for 30 years....:)

    awesome name... we have glenn "hurricane" schwartz. he wears a bow tie. lol :D
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Brain of J.Lo wrote:
    awesome name... we have glenn "hurricane" schwartz. he wears a bow tie. lol :D


    well my favorite local weatherman has to be dallas raines.......and i believe that is his real name...:eek: :D

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