Let me apologize in advance if I have hit a topic covered in another post, but I did look before I posted this.
This morning we had 1.25" rain in 1 hour. My console recorded 0.00.
When I checked later, I found a field beetle (aka blister beetle) at the bottom of my rain cone. Since the cone is very similar to the ant lion trap, the beetle died there.
Question
1. Can a beetle actually keep the gauge from registering any rain at all? It would seem to me that the gauge would record something as the rain sort of squeezed past the beetle.
2. Something else I should check/do before the next rain?
My gauge is about 3 months old. Vantage Pro2
Thanks!