Comments on: Spring Rains http://lifeinrileycounty.com/2009/04/spring-rains/ It's great! (at least I think so...) Thu, 27 May 2010 16:27:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: dlstrom http://lifeinrileycounty.com/2009/04/spring-rains/comment-page-1/#comment-4 dlstrom Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:34:24 +0000 http://lifeinrileycounty.wordpress.com/?p=17#comment-4 Yep, rain gauges are a part of life around here! Thanks for the usgs.gov links. I'd forgotten about them. Good luck with the worms! Yep, rain gauges are a part of life around here! Thanks for the usgs.gov links. I’d forgotten about them.

Good luck with the worms!

]]> By: Dennis Toll http://lifeinrileycounty.com/2009/04/spring-rains/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Dennis Toll Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:11:28 +0000 http://lifeinrileycounty.wordpress.com/?p=17#comment-3 I like how everyone (except me) around here owns a rain gauge. On the day after a rain, they get together and talk about their gauges. "I got about half an inch," says one. "I just barely got two-tenths," responds another. "That's strange, because we got over an inch and a half," says a third. (I suspect a robin landed on that third gauge and helped fill it up) Without a gauge, I'm a foreigner in those conversations. So I now go to http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?06887000 and see the USGS rain gauge near where I live. Then I go to their list of Kansas sites at http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ks/nwis/rt and pick out more rain gauges all throughout the Flint Hills. Just so you know, the USGS rain gauge on the Blue River says it rained over eight-tenths of an inch last night. Just enough to cover my back patio in worms. I like how everyone (except me) around here owns a rain gauge. On the day after a rain, they get together and talk about their gauges. “I got about half an inch,” says one. “I just barely got two-tenths,” responds another. “That’s strange, because we got over an inch and a half,” says a third. (I suspect a robin landed on that third gauge and helped fill it up)
Without a gauge, I’m a foreigner in those conversations. So I now go to http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?06887000 and see the USGS rain gauge near where I live. Then I go to their list of Kansas sites at http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ks/nwis/rt and pick out more rain gauges all throughout the Flint Hills.
Just so you know, the USGS rain gauge on the Blue River says it rained over eight-tenths of an inch last night. Just enough to cover my back patio in worms.

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