Homemade Rain Gauge

Here s how to make a really simple rain gauge using recycled materials for some rainy day fun.

Homemade rain gauge. Put the pebbles in the bottom of the bottle these will help keep it from getting blown over if it s windy. Pour a few centimeters of jelly into the. Pour in the pebbles in the bottom of the bottle. Place pebbles in the bottom.

Creating a rain gauge with built in measurement 1. A rain gauge is an instrument to measure rainfall which is measured in millimeters. Use a pair of scissors to carefully cut the top of the bottle off. Make a rain gauge measuring the rain in the uk can be very rewarding at least you won t have to wait too long to get a result.

What the rainfall measure is telling us is the height of rain water collected in a vessel that has vertical walls and has uniform cross section from bottom to the top. Turn the top part of the bottle upside down and place it inside the bottom part fix it in place using. Plastic bottle rain gauge. Make a scale we used a wooden skewer which we marked in 1cm increments with the help of a ruler and fix it to the side of the bottle.

Turn the top of the bottle upside down make sure. Turn the top of. Here are instructions for making a simple homemade rain gauge out of a plastic bottle perfect for your experiments in measuring the weather. Your bottle needs a flat bottom to be able to measure the rainfall properly.

Carefully use the scissors to cut the top of the bottle off at the wide part just below where it begins to get narrow. Cut the top off the bottle and place. Occasionally the rain fall is also reported in centimeters or in inches. Cut the top off of the bottle.

April 27 2012 by anna ranson. Find a place outside in the open away from any trees to put your gauge. Cut around the plastic bottle about two thirds of the way up. Soda bottles are never flat.

How to make a rain gauge you ll need. There are plenty of opportunities for learning about measuring number recognition capacity and weather along the way too.