Brand: Stratus
Feature: Collects and measures all precipitation types

• Collects and measures all precipitation types
• Easy to install and read
• Mounting hardware included
• Graduated to nearest inch with .01" intervals
• Funnel top catches rain and delivers it to one-inch measuring tube (lets you instantly measure commonly occurring amounts of rain)

Customer Rating:
Summary: Fine precision instrument
Comment: This unit is exactly what the backyard weather watcher needs. It is simple to use and records to the hundredth of an inch. I have used one for years in the Ozarks in all seasons. It affords accurate measure of rain, snow, and ice. I can recommend this brand without reservation.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Works great - not expensive
Comment: This gauge is easy to use, is accurate (if sited properly) and does not cost a small fortune. :) It is hard plastic, and is made for both rain and snow (inner tube and funnel need to come out if using for snow). This same type of rain & snow gauge is what CoCoRaHS uses.

For those that wonder how to take rain measurement, here ya go:

Once the inner tube fills up with rain, then it automatically overflows into the larger tube. The inner tube measures 1" in increments of tenths. If it rains more than that, then the larger tube will start to fill up. If wanting to measure it, just empty the inner tube (we know already that at least 1" fell), now pour the water from larger tube into smaller tube and measure that also. Keep pouring out small tube when full and repeat the measuring. The whole thing has capacity for 11-inches.

When measuring the inner (smaller) tube, there will probably be what looks like a curve/bubble on top of the water, it's normal, but you want to take measurement from the bottom of curve/bubble (or meniscus as it is called), if you need better accuracy in measurements.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: If you really need to know...
Comment: The Stratus Rain Gauge is the one that the National Weather Service sends out to graduates of the NWS Skywarn observer training program. Got mine that way.

It isn't the easiest to read,especially over 1" where you have to decant the overflow volume into the central 1" graduate but it is very accurate as long as it is placed properly, out in the open. The price is right too.

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