A British garden's rainfall data 1988-2022 using copper rain gauge, notepad, pen
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Meteorologists, as I learned the other day, were some of the early pioneers of a universal metric system.
There’s a reason prior to irrigation (and Hunter gathering) only a few regions in the world supported long-term human habitation.
Read his statement with the missing nod to consensus "while climate change is real" at the beginning.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31559512 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31559404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31559481
This appears to be a bugbear for them.
What about the people who think climate change is real but question the science and ask why 1 study includes X but not Y while another includes Y but not X, and suggest it’s cherry picking data?
I'm pointing this out because hyperbole and demonization do no one any good, either when trying to correct misinformation or when trying to enact policy.
Climate change is real, but it did not invent bad weather.
If you're serious about trying to understand the world around you, but don't trust others' data analysis, you can download the raw data & do the calculations yourself.
Historical tide gauge data: https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/tide.shtml
You likely want the CO-OPS 1-minute water level data.
Historical daily weather station data: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/global...
Anyone browsing (if there are multiple datasets eventually) probably wants to have some metadata about approximate location and climate of the location.
I am nit sure if such small reservoirs can help much, but it is always something.
Last statup I heard was some company that put rubber balls on big water reservoirs in California (?) to try to limit evaporation. I wonder if this helped and if the decaying plastic didnt polute the water.
They are made from HDPE, with an additive to prevent UV-accelerated breakdown into bromates (which is what they are there to stop forming in the water, as well as to stop evaporation).
Droughts and floods are the real issue here.
Same with sewage, they don't bother building the capacity, just pay off the Tories and they allow it to be pumped raw into rivers and onto shores.
It's absolutely legal to harvest rainwater in the UK for private use. Some councils even encourage it!
Source: https://www.anchorpumps.com/blog/rules-harvesting-rainwater/....
1) yes you can have a small 100l tank catching rain water for your garden, but you can not drink it. If it became a big tank it would become subject to planning and building control. 2) you need a permit to harvest ground water by digging a well or borehole. 3) you need a permit to entrap water in a pond and to build a dam for this purpose
The UK is quite wet and becoming wetter so I think it will be down to adapting to more rain but perhaps less constant.
The water distribution infrastructure is also notorious for being outdated and full of leaks...
https://metofficenews.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/uk-rainfal... White is 40-45 inches. That or greater is rare, the only dark blue in England is a national park famous for its lakes and rain. The third element of too much rain is that we like to complain about trivialities.
The technology already exists. Bulldozer, excavator, concrete, explosives. Not not-sexy enough for you?
> Just patch them in random places to collect water,
Not sure what "patch" means here, but water is becoming increasingly regulated, and in a lot of places you can't just randomly build lakes and dam water even on property you own.
> plant some trees and it should help. Make it in a way that it just requires a small plot of land, so a group of people can acquire the plot, or even better - force the muncipiality to provide one.
Should help with what? I feel I'm missing the context you're replying to.
Or maybe he just doesn't trust the government.
If I drive 1km down the road, the temp goes up 3C in the summer, when it is 35C in the city, and 32C here.
Why? I am close to a river, there are hills around me. Terrain makes a difference.
Sometimes, I can see it rain an few km away, but not here. And the reverse is true, too.
And beyond that, rain is not consistent. It's not as of someone turned on a faucet, and rain is coming from a perfect shower head, all perfectly distributed.
It varies, fluctuates, terrain, makes a difference, for terrain effects wind patterns, causes air to rise or fall, etc etc.
The adage if you don't like the weather in the UK, wait 5 minutes, is also perfectly accurate.
> The adage if you don't like the weather in the UK, wait 5 minutes, is also perfectly accurate.
I know what you mean, but three or four hours will almost certainly guarantee a change (especially when raining) as this gives westerly fronts from the Atlantic to pass through.
Our local monsoon season was weeks of great thunderstorms twenty years ago and is now a period of humidity. Stuff like this makes it “real.” Aka resistant to gaslighting.
The synthetic precipitation data might be useful on a large, average scale, but it usually doesn't actually provide a particularly accurate measure of what actually happened on your land.
I would probably be into steampunk as an aesthetic if it were more hard scifi and less makebelieve. Compared to steampunk bric-à-brac, a copper rain gauge is steam punk science that is actually scientific, as opposed to an iPhone case with brass cogs glued to it.
It serves a practical purpose too — when you have a privet hedge and a lawn to care for and your climate provides rainfall on an intermittent basis, it’s important to know when the soil needs some artificial millimetres on it to keep the foliage going.
What a silly question.
The most solid data source they found in Germany was a local club of enthusiast entomologists who had been collecting bugs using the same traps, locations, and methodology over the past 80+ years.
The answer btw was yes, there was a marked reduction over that time frame.