Sunday, November 21

Close enough

The weather prediction was correct. It was snowing at the house by 7:00 this morning, and had been snowing up the hill a bit during the night. None of the snow stuck around by the house, though. Good. Up the hill is close enough.

Total moisture from the two-day storm is 1.82 inches, 46 millimeters. It was a gentle rainfall and most of it seems to have soaked in rather than running down the creeks. Storms like these keep the grass growing and the horses fat.

4 comments:

Pat said...

My, that's an interesting looking rain gauge. Does it do snow too?

Tom Hurley said...

It does snow only in daytime when light charges its electric snow-melting grid on top. At night snow piles up and falls off into a special snow-collecting bucket on the ground below. The user has to multiply the melted-snow measure by 10 to determine depth before melting. It’s all complicated and expensive to automate, so I opted for a rain-only model that simply melts daytime snow and mixes it up willy-nilly with rain.

Pat said...

Is there a patent on the grid yet? Could make a mint on that. And the bucket too.

Tom Hurley said...

No patents yet. I’m busy preparing for tonight’s showing of how shoelaces and toothpicks and Post-It notes are made. And oh yeah—aircraft carriers.