NeRAIN

October: Protecting the Gauge

Happy October NeRAIN volunteers and companions! It?s time to store the funnel and the inner measurement tube!

Autumn is a time for harvests, great meals with family and friends, and for some folks, it is the spooky season, with ghouls, goblins, ghosts, and gremlins crawling about (often demanding treats!). Wanna know the most terrifying thing of all for a rain gauge? It?s the cold season. As the cold creeps in, it threatens the safety of the rain gauges. The small diameter tube with all the markings on it inside the rain gauge is at risk if it has water in it and temperatures get down to a hard freeze. It easily cracks!

Another issue with the rain gauge is that you cannot accurately measure precipitation from snow if the funnel fills up and excess snow falls to the side of the gauge.

In order to accurately measure snowfalls, and protect that inner measurement tube, simply remove both the funnel and tube from the gauge and store them in a safe indoor area until next spring. Remember, you?ll use both for measuring snow-related precipitation, so choose a place on your path outside to your gauge?perhaps a shelf in the garage, kitchen cabinet by the back door, or on a shelf in a coat closet?whichever is closest to where your rain gauge is located.

Didn?t quite bring your small tube inside in time, and it cracked during a freeze? That?s ok, just reach out to your regional coordinator and they will be happy to provide you with new parts.

Follow up from our last newsletter: around half dozen folks reached out to us to properly locate their rain gauge on the map. If yours is not mapped at its actual location, let us know and we?ll fix the coordinates.

If you?re on Facebook, search for the NeRAIN group or go directly to [link removed]. If you have any weather-related comments or photos, please drop us a post there.

To get in touch with us, feel free to send an email to [email protected], or call or email your local coordinator or the statewide coordinators listed at [link removed]. We are always happy to hear from you!

Until next time,

--Jim Williams




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