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What are the odds that the “tipping-bucket rain gauge” was impacted by being repeatedly shook by the storm, triggering the counters — or some other source of er
by O__________O 4y ago
What are the odds that the “tipping-bucket rain gauge” was impacted by being repeatedly shook by the storm, triggering the counters — or some other source of error, fraud, etc.?
Is there data for cyclonic rainfall that might be modeled for similar to how this article titled “How can we call something a thousand-year storm if we don’t have a thousand years of climate observations” is?
http://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/how-can-we-call-something-thousand-year-storm-if-we-don%E2%80%99t-have-thousand http://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/how-can-w...
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoExactly. It must be measurement error. 1.8m across the kind of area that rains falls is a "scour everything down to bedrock" level of water. It just doesn't check out. When you get that much water in one place the results make the history books.
- prottog 4y agoMount Waialeale on Kaua'i supposedly received 683 inches in 1982[0], so perhaps it's not totally inconceivable that some other tropical place received about a tenth of that in a day? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Waialeale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Waialeale
- lostlogin 4y agoThere are other records that are also ridiculous, though a lot less - check this list. http://www.bom.gov.au/water/designRainfalls/rainfallEvents/worldRecRainfall.shtml http://www.bom.gov.au/water/designRainfalls/rainfallEvents/w...