Great price on a good rain gauge. It's easy to read and I liked it enough to buy it again (after I left it out when a heavy afternoon rain met with nighttime temps in the 20s. The water in the gauge froze and the gauge cracked--my fault.)

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After only a few months the paint started coming off. It was just mounted stationary, no movement.

This rain gauge works great in our garden. It’s simple to use and easy to read. We just pushed it directly into the ground. We bring ours inside during the winter, so I cannot comment on its tolerance of the cold.Regarding any accuracy concerns, the amount of rain collected by a rain gauge is related to the size of the opening in the top of the rain gauge. Just like one inch of rain in your coffee cup is less water than one inch of rain in your swimming pool, one inch of rain captured in a small rain gauge will have less water than one inch of rain captured in a larger rain gauge. You cannot pour one inch of water from your coffee cup into your swimming pool and expect the water in your swimming pool to be one inch deeper. A larger rain gauge can be just as accurate as a smaller rain gauge though they will contain different amounts of water.This rain gauges is smaller at the bottom and larger at the top. Still, all the rain is captured through the larger opening in the top. If you pour one inch of water from a wide cup into another cup that is half as wide, the smaller cup will have two inches of water. It’s still the same one inch of water from the larger cup, but it fills more of the smaller cup. That is why this rain gauge has numbers that are farther apart at the bottom and get gradually closer together at the top.

Bought two of these (at $6 a pop) to monitor rainfall in the garden and by the berry bushes in our backyard. I'm not a super hardcore gardener, just wanted to get a general idea of how much water the plants have / need. So far, in a couple of weeks, we haven't gotten more than 0.1" at a time, but they're easy to use and read.If you plan to mount to a fence, garden bed, or other piece of wood, do note that the mounting holes and slots appear to be undersized for a #8 wood screw; the slots fit over the screw shank just fine, but the holes are too small. I drilled them out; if doing so, make sure to use multiple drill bits, slowly progressing upward in size, and starting with the smallest size you have that is larger than the existing hole. Go too big too fast and you'll blow a massive hole in the acrylic where the previously-nicely-round hole used to be. Ask me how I know.Country of origin is listed as USA in the Amazon listing, but "Made in China" is molded into the plastic of the gauge itself.

This rain gauge lasted 5 years in the brutal Southern California sun! That is about as long as an unpainted wood fence lasts here so I am very pleased. Now the plastic is a bit too yellow to read the gauge so I bought another to replace it. It is large and easy to read. I love how durable it is and that it is not glass. Easy to clean with a bottle brush.

I know this product from when I lived in America. It has a magnifying effect so the numbers are easy to read. It holds 5 ins, which is a lot more than most gauges. Since it’s from America, it is quite expensive, but worth it.

 

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I know that I could put empty tin cans in the yard to measure rainfall, but that’s so cumbersome. First you have to find a tall straight-walled can, tall enough that the rain doesn’t splash out. Then you have to stick a ruler in the can to measure the depth of water. That’s not very accurate compared to this because in this rain gauge the smaller amounts are amplified by the tapered walls so a small amount of rainfall is magnified to be more easily read. And if it’s still raining, you don’t have to go out in the rain because if you place it where it can be seen from a window you can probably read the level with your bare eyes (if you have good eyes and it’s not too far away). Or, grab a pair of binoculars. Be sure to place the rain gauge in the open, away from interference by tree canopies. I measure the total rainfall for each weather event coming through, then reset the gauge – don’t forget to reset the gauge (pour the water out).I have always wanted a rain gauge and finally sat down to evaluate what was available. This one was priced attractively, looked like it would be easy to read from a distance (it is), and would probably last a few years. I was concerned that the plastic spike would easily break off, so I had planned to use two screws in a narrow piece of sharpened board driven into the ground so I could attach the gauge to the board and remove it easily to dump the water, but I never did that and the plastic spike hasn’t broken off yet. I do try to be careful when sticking it in the ground, however. My only complaint is that it measures only 5 inches, which may not be enough (see my experience below). But I can’t down rate it for that unusual situation, and it does everything else right. I bought this exactly one year ago and the plastic is still clear, but I assume ultraviolet light will eventually take its toll.This a great purchase. In fact, I’ve enjoyed having it so much that I plan to give out this rain gauge as Christmas presents. It’s always difficult to find a present which most people don’t have, but could use and would enjoy having. I think this will make a great, and fairly unusual gift. Thoughtful, yet inexpensive.The weatherman always reports how much rain fell at this airport, that airport, etc. But I know that the sky could fall at my brother's house just a few miles away, and we get not a drop. So I've always wanted to have a way to know exactly how much rain WE got. The only time I really, really wanted to know was during the deluge we got in South Carolina (remember the 1000+ year flood of Oct 2015?). Two measurements taken the first day, added together, totaled 6.5 inches. I dumped the water out just before going to bed, then woke up early the next morning to check the gauge. It had been raining heavily all night and I wanted to know exactly how much we got, but was astonished and disappointed to see that the water was flowing over the brim of the rain gauge while it was continuing to rain heavily. We were supposedly in an area that got some of the heaviest rainfall. We're on a hill so were in no danger of flooding, but sadly I'll never know the exact total amount of the rain we got at our house. I guess you could say the historic rainfall "broke" my rain gauge.