My rain gage got it’s first test the other day. We got a nice 1 7/10" of rain in there. The water line is just barely visible under the bottom holder bracket.
And yes BillyBob in Kansas, your rain gage is metric because it measures in tenths of an inch. So take that! You commie pinkos in California!
As a side note: We got a light frost last night. It got down to 31F/-1C at some point last night. Not a hard enough frost to kill the bell pepper plants outright, but it did singe and tip the leaves a bit this morning.
That base ten fraction of an inch is just cursed.
Just for the sake of mutual intelligibility, it’s a little over 1 and 9/12ths of a centimeter of rain.
You monster!
Even twelve is too metric like those fancy french I want 1/8, 1/16, 1/32 or 1/64th like a red blooded american.
No it’s not. As a machinist, decimal inches matter - a lot. The problem for most people is they they can’t seem to understand when you are using decimal inches, fractions don’t matter and they don’t exist in this world.
If you want a base ten measurement system just use metric.
Nah, this is fine. Rain gauges aren’t rocket surgery.
Eighths are better because you half the distance and continue until you get to eighth.
Decimal inches are an abomination.
When you are using fractions, decimal inches don’t matter. And if you are using decimal inches, why are you concerned about fractional measurements?
Because decimal inches don’t have a place in this work.
Fractional inches or metric. Period.
Talk to the meteorologists. They chose the scale for rain gauges. And yes decimal inches have place. you just refuse to admit it.
Anything decimal inches does metric does better.
That’s why engineers use metric and not decimal inches.