rain gauge
Example Sentences
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A rain gauge in the Black Mountains on the northern edge of Monmouthshire recorded accumulations of 119.6mm between Thursday night and Saturday morning, BBC Wales environment correspondent Steffan Messenger said.
From BBC ● Nov. 17, 2025
A rain gauge picked up 0.74 of an inch on Topanga Canyon Boulevard on the edge of the fire boundary, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025
Every morning at St. Joseph’s Upper Primary School in the hilly village of Malayinchippara, at the 8:30 assembly, some of the 100 students take a reading from a simple cylindrical rain gauge, installed in 2020.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
Correction: An earlier version of this article misidentified the county where a rain gauge tallied more than 14.9 inches of rain.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 22, 2022
She asked for a barometer and an anemometer and a rain gauge for Christmas, and hung them outside her bedroom window.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
