AcuRite5" Capacity Easy-to-Read Magnifying Acrylic, Blue (00850A3) Rain Gauge

This rain gauge works great in our garden. It’s simple to use and easy to read. We just pushed it directly into the ground. We bring ours inside during the winter, so I cannot comment on its tolerance of the cold.Regarding any accuracy concerns, the amount of rain collected by a rain gauge is related to the size of the opening in the top of the rain gauge. Just like one inch of rain in your coffee cup is less water than one inch of rain in your swimming pool, one inch of rain captured in a small rain gauge will have less water than one inch of rain captured in a larger rain gauge. You cannot pour one inch of water from your coffee cup into your swimming pool and expect the water in your swimming pool to be one inch deeper. A larger rain gauge can be just as accurate as a smaller rain gauge though they will contain different amounts of water.This rain gauges is smaller at the bottom and larger at the top. Still, all the rain is captured through the larger opening in the top. If you pour one inch of water from a wide cup into another cup that is half as wide, the smaller cup will have two inches of water. It’s still the same one inch of water from the larger cup, but it fills more of the smaller cup. That is why this rain gauge has numbers that are farther apart at the bottom and get gradually closer together at the top.

Great item, worth the money A++

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I know this product from when I lived in America. It has a magnifying effect so the numbers are easy to read. It holds 5 ins, which is a lot more than most gauges. Since it’s from America, it is quite expensive, but worth it.

It's good