How is the amount of rain actually determined by number of inches?

Answer 1

The basic rain gauge has a funnel leading into a transparent tube; the funnel has ten times the cross-sectional area of the tube, so that each inch of water in the tube represents a tenth of an inch of rain. Electric gauges have a funnel which leads to a tipping bucket device; when the bucket on one side of the teeter-totter is full, it tips, dumping the first bucket, lining up the other one, and sending a signal to a recorder.

Answer 2

The best way to learn how rain totals are determined is by trying to measure it yourself. We will keep it very simple:

All you need is a bucket that has a flat bottom or base. The walls of the bucket should be standing straight up from the base. This tube like wall of the bucket and base of the bucket should not have any dents, damage or any designed groves. It should be smooth. The diameter of the base bottom should be the same as the top opening end of the bucket.

Before the next storm arrives in your area, set this clean and dry bucket on a flat even surface. Make sure the bucket sits in an open area and away from trees with leaves that may get blown into the bucket during the storm. Have a ruler that measures in inches ready. When the rainfall ends, use the ruler to measure how much rain water has fallen into the bucket. The water level collected from the rain inside the bucket will give an excellent estimate of how much rain in inches has fallen at your location since the time you put out the bucket.

It is that simple.

Answer 3

No it actually does not determine whether a wrestler is good or not. The moves a wrestler can have can be minimized by the company they are wrestling if the company thinks such wrestler or such move can cause health damages to them. For example CM Punk had a lot of moves back when he was in RoH and most of his moves got minimized once he came to the WWE. So by the moves a wrestler is commanded to do it doesn't really determine how good of a wrestler they are. Sometimes not even the wrestler him or her self choose what moves they have to make the company chooses what fits the wrestlers body type or so or if they have the energy to do such a move with out getting injured. Because if such a wrestler gets injured by doing a move which the company knew would cause an injury or problem to the wrestler they can easily get sued which would be something the company would not like. Another example of a company wanting to see if the wrestler can execute the move properly would be that for Evan Bourne the WWE made him do the moonsault a couple of times before they made up their minds that he should use it as his finisher. Actually the number of moves doesn't determine if the wrestler is good but how they deliver the move. The number is just a number and not quality. If a wrestler has a number of moves which they can execute perfectly then those moves is the wrestlers move set. BTW; very good question may I say. (:

Answer 4

The raingauge measures the depth of the rain falling into the gauge. The standard gauge has a 200mm diameter funnel or 8" if you still use imperial measurements.

If you want to know how much rain fell on a roof, for instance, all you need to do is get the area of the roof and multiply it by the depth of rain to get the total volume of water flowing into the gutters and into your rainwater tank

For instance, your roof is 20m by 10m and you get 20mm of rain. That is 20 X 10 X 0.02 cubic metres or 4 cubic metres of water which is 4000 litres.