Whenever it rains, the first question to come to mind is, “How much did we get?” To help you find the answer in your own yard, let’s make a rain gauge. All we need for supplies is a two liter bottle, ...

Columbia, SC (WLTX) - There’s another March Madness going on, but it’s not played by basketball players; it’s between meteorologists and climatologists. Every March, State Climatologists and National ...

Did you know that, on average, May and June are two of the top three wettest months on average for the Brazos Valley? You can thank an active weather pattern that sets up over the Lone Star State each ...

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Rain gauges are some of the most basic yet necessary tools used to measure weather today. It was created in 1441 for agricultural purposes. Centuries later, the rain gauge is still widely used to ...

It can be done by using a trick of multiplication. The collection area of a rain gauge is a funnel that is ten times the area of the tube into which the rainwater drains. Rainwater therefore stands ...

KENTUCKY (WKYT) - Kentucky rain gauges were put to good use Tuesday, but one viewer had a question about how meteorologists can be so precise with their measurements. For today’s Good Question, Karl ...

It isn’t that hard to make an electronic rain gauge if you have a steady source of power or you don’t mind changing batteries often. But [Matthew Ford] offers a third option: a simple device with a ...

It looks as if the rainy season is here, and maybe it will stay for a while. Summer rainstorms never quite materialized last year and that's a major reason our water resources are in such bad shape ...