Simple Rain Guage

Do -it – yourself kit to find out how much rain falls where you live by making your own rain measure. A rain gauge is an instrument to measure rainfall, which is measured in millimeters. Occasionally the rain fall is also reported in centimeters or in inches. What the rainfall measure is telling us is the height of rain water collected in a vessel that has vertical walls and has uniform cross section from bottom to the top. Therefore, in principle any vessel that has a uniform cross section can be used as a rain gauge.One can measure volume of collected water and convert this value into rain fall. More sophisticated rain gauges have electronic devices to automatically record rain fall.