When I woke up this morning, I had an inexplicable urge to build a rain gauge – so I have. I made mine (surprise, surprise) out of a plastic milk bottle, chosen because it wasn’t too big and the handle made it easy to fix to something solid.
I have chosen to use the top half, so that I can easily drain the water out without taking the thing down – it’s held in place with a couple of plastic cable ties, this being a geeky house.
Because I’ve used the top half, and the rain gauge therefore doesn’t have a flat bottom, I can’t measure my rainfall in millimetres. I will have to measure in millilitres instead, but I’ve never understood the millimetre measurements anyway, since the depth of water so obviously depends on the volume of the container. Weird.
If you’re looking for projects for the kiddies during Easter break, then you might want to consider making a recycled weather centre. BBC Wear have got instructions for making a barometer (an indoor project), a rain gauge (a bit more fancy than mine) and a weather vane, all out of odds and ends.
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The maximum temperature in the Grow Dome yesterday was 24°C.
The overnight minimum was 6°C.
Crafty Gardener wrote:
...on Sun, Mar 2 '08 (1438 days ago)