Tuesday, June 11, 2019

The Field Lab Rain Gauge

Are you a true off-gridder? Here is a test. My "rain gauge" has 150 gallons of rainwater in it after the last 24 hours. This was caught off a roof surface that is 352 square feet. How much rain actually fell? 80,86,63,?,B
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8 comments:

Hachita said...

1.463 inches

June 11, 2019 at 5:39 PM
Hachita said...

Make that 0.684 inches. I'm a false off-gridder. Got my reciprocals backwards.

June 11, 2019 at 5:52 PM
Al said...

What's the slope of the roof?

June 11, 2019 at 6:21 PM
Margery Billd said...

1/2 inch?

June 11, 2019 at 6:47 PM
remmij said...

tanks are 275ga. capacity… looks just over half full + ~13ga.
visually would guess there was ~ 137.5ga > ~1,141lbs on the pallet… 150 = 1,251lbs.…
rounded - government math:
~.67"… if the tank was dry to start with…

June 11, 2019 at 6:55 PM
ETex said...

About 7.45

June 11, 2019 at 6:57 PM
John Wells said...

Hachita wins...on his second calculation.

June 11, 2019 at 7:06 PM
Margery Billd said...

I was in the ball park. Good guess Marge. :-)

June 11, 2019 at 9:10 PM

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