I have a weather station now, mounted up on the roof, with a wireless remote readout down in the comfort of the home. It was a gift from Juli - Thanks hon! I'm in the midst of figuring out how it's calibrated against my tried and true rain gauge.
Here's the three first trials, broken down by storm:
Weather station 3/10: 0.39" + 3/11 (thus far) 0.18" = 0.57"
Rain gauge 0.69"
Weather station 3/14: 0.21" + 3/15: 0.12 = 0.33"
Rain gauge 3/16 0.3" (upon return from trip, so perhaps evaporation explains the difference)
Weather station 3/17: 0.009"
Rain gauge 3/17: 0.01"
That 3/10 storm didn't have close agreement, which was weird given the much closer tracking of the following two. I checked for operator error a couple times, but without any mistakes found and I don't recall an errant jet of water from the hose.
This puts my backyard rainfall at 3.359" (weather station) of 3.45" (rain gauge) which brings to mind a favorite saying of mine, "Only the man with two watches doesn't know what time it is."
2018-03-17
Arrived from Annie’s today
Houston and Juli gave me a gift card to Annie's Annuals a while back and today arrived...
1 Coreopsis gigantea (to bring to 3 the number in my garden). These look like Dr. Seuss daisys - they have such a loopy appearance in bloom.
2 Deschampsia caespitosa (Tufted Hair Grass) because I want to see how it does and learn a bit about native grasses. Usually I research the crap out of the plants I desire before purchase, but I see with a backward lens that this grass probably requires more water than I will willingly supply and that Calflora doesn't have any observations locally. What is doing well is Nasella pulchra, which has naturalized on my hillside below the Ceanothus. I do note that in an otherwise near-grassless yard that the dogs like to munch D. caespitosa. Note: an alternate spelling is cespitosa
3 Eriophyllum confertiflorum - yellow yarrow, though it's not really a yarrow.
I got them all planted out last weekend, so I'm feeling good.
Brent - via iPhone
1 Coreopsis gigantea (to bring to 3 the number in my garden). These look like Dr. Seuss daisys - they have such a loopy appearance in bloom.
2 Deschampsia caespitosa (Tufted Hair Grass) because I want to see how it does and learn a bit about native grasses. Usually I research the crap out of the plants I desire before purchase, but I see with a backward lens that this grass probably requires more water than I will willingly supply and that Calflora doesn't have any observations locally. What is doing well is Nasella pulchra, which has naturalized on my hillside below the Ceanothus. I do note that in an otherwise near-grassless yard that the dogs like to munch D. caespitosa. Note: an alternate spelling is cespitosa
3 Eriophyllum confertiflorum - yellow yarrow, though it's not really a yarrow.
I got them all planted out last weekend, so I'm feeling good.
Brent - via iPhone
2018-03-05
0.36" rain; 2.45" season total
2/27/18 0.1" (PM)
3/3/18 0.33"
3/4/18 0.02"
The state is breathing a sign of relief with this latest storm which brought high snowfalls (for a single storm) to the Sierra. Still, we are far under average.
3/3/18 0.33"
3/4/18 0.02"
The state is breathing a sign of relief with this latest storm which brought high snowfalls (for a single storm) to the Sierra. Still, we are far under average.
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