Bath, Pennsylvania - U.S.A.

Charles A. Giannetta

Meteorologist

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Professor

Picture of Gini's "Weighing Bucket Raingauge" for measuring precipitation

Inlarged view of the 24 hour clock driven drum with
the pen which produces a trace on the paper
graph as precipition is occurring.

"How It Works"

The gauge consists of a 10 quart bucket sitting onto of a scale. There is clock driven drum with a chart attached to the drum.
You can see the drum with the chart attached through opening at the bottom of the gauge.
A pen is conected to the scale through a series of gears and levers.

As precipitation occurs and falls into the gauge through the opening at the top. The precipitation is gathered in the 10 quart bucket.
The precipitation is weighed by the scale and moves the pen up the chart located on the clock driven drum.

Precipitation is measured in the hundreds of inches.
The chart indicates how much precipitation occured and at what time of day or night.

"Example"

If - 2.00" of precipitation occurred at 2:31 am, you could look at the chart and see the trace that occured at that time.

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© 2013 Charles A. Giannetta

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