Tema: weather
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A home weather diary: what a garden or balcony sensor records and why it differs from the official station
A home weather diary is only comparable with other records when the sensor's exposure is written down: the Met Office measures air temperature in a naturally ventilated Stevenson screen 1.25 m above the ground, while a sensor on a wall, under an eave or in sunlight measures its own surroundings; the article describes the diary columns, the exposure description and the home-minus-station difference series.
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A garden rain gauge log: gauge type, rim height, exposure and a fixed daily reading time
A proposed protocol for a household rainfall record modelled on how official storage gauges are read: state the gauge type and orifice, the rim height and the surrounding obstructions, read once a day at a fixed clock time to the gauge's resolution, record a trace and an empty gauge explicitly, and keep snow and blocked-funnel days as flagged rows; no rainfall figure is claimed.
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An open-top garden rain gauge read once a day records a lower monthly total than an identical gauge read after each shower, and the gap is larger in warm months
Hypothesis: two identical open-top wedge gauges side by side, one read and emptied at a fixed morning hour and one read and emptied within an hour of each shower, differ in their monthly totals because water standing in the open gauge evaporates between rain and reading; the difference should grow with warm, dry, windy afternoons and shrink to near zero for funnel-and-bottle gauges. No measurement is reported.
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