Topic: Rain Gauge Increments

[AntHraX]

Is There a reason my rain gauge increments in odd numbers?
Like Today.....
01/04/24   18:57   4.4
01/04/24   18:58   4.4
01/04/24   19:10   4.6
01/04/24   19:11   4.6
01/04/24   19:12   4.9
01/04/24   19:13   4.9
01/04/24   19:27   5.1
01/04/24   19:28   5.3

or is this normal on a gw1000?

Thanks 

[Mattk]

Typical of say an imperial gauge converted to metric and rounded to 1 decimal

[jantoni]

Is There a reason my rain gauge increments in odd numbers?
Like Today.....
01/04/24   18:57   4.4
01/04/24   18:58   4.4
01/04/24   19:10   4.6
01/04/24   19:11   4.6
01/04/24   19:12   4.9
01/04/24   19:13   4.9
01/04/24   19:27   5.1
01/04/24   19:28   5.3

or is this normal on a gw1000?

Thanks 

The capacity of the rain gauge is 2.54mm, so the steps are 0.2mm, then 0.3mm, then 0.2mm and so on

[AntHraX]

ok, Cheers 

[Gyvate]

Is There a reason my rain gauge increments in odd numbers?
Like Today.....
01/04/24   18:57   4.4
01/04/24   18:58   4.4
01/04/24   19:10   4.6
01/04/24   19:11   4.6
01/04/24   19:12   4.9
01/04/24   19:13   4.9
01/04/24   19:27   5.1
01/04/24   19:28   5.3

or is this normal on a gw1000?

Thanks 

The capacity of the rain gauge is 2.54mm, so the steps are 0.2mm, then 0.3mm, then 0.2mm and so on

in principle the increments are as described above 0.2 and 0.3 to compensate for the 0.054 mm from the 0.254 mm rainfall (corresponding to one bucket tip), which the consoles don't display (only one digit after the decimal point is shown) - for a WS69/WH65 - for a WH40 it would be 0.1014 mm per tip.

However, if the rain rates are higher, the increments may be multiples i.e. 0.5, 0.8 ....

Afaik the 0.04 are also added and at some point in time there may be two subsequent 0.3 mm readings - can only be noticed when the rainfall is long enough (time-wise and quantity-wise) - or it gets "lost" (the visibility, not the count) during longer time strong rainfalls - might be a 0.5 and a 0.6 count ...

also even numbers can therefore occur - your first two readings were an even number though