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.
My, that's an interesting looking rain gauge. Does it do snow too?
ReplyDeleteIt 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.
ReplyDeleteIs there a patent on the grid yet? Could make a mint on that. And the bucket too.
ReplyDeleteNo 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.
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