rain gauge
Example Sentences
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It included a rain gauge, a funnel and a brass container.
From BBC • Dec. 14, 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
