How hard is it raining?
FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:
Jim Cumbie, in Baltimore, says Baseball writer Bill James has a new book in which he laments that there is no generally accepted objective measure for the rate of rainfall to help umpires decide when to call a game. “Is it true that nobody measures the rate of rainfall?” Jim asks. Bill needs a fact-checker. Many weather stations with rain gauges, including ours, can and do compute the rain rate in inches per hour. They report the rates in real time, and can sound an alarm at pre-set levels.
(SUN PHOTO: Our dusty Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station console, with rain rate readout)
Posted by Frank Roylance at 12:01 AM | Permalink
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Categories: From the Sun's print edition
Categories: From the Sun's print edition
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If only a drop of rain or a flake of snow falls in a 24 hour period, is that considered a trace?
FR: Here's the definition from Weather.com's weather glossary: "Generally, an unmeasurable or insignificant quantity. A precipitation amount of less than 0.005 inch."
Posted by: joe bollinger | March 21, 2011 12:50 AM
Oh Sun, where are your copyeditors? In "generally-accepted" American English grammar, we don't hyphenate adverbs to nouns! That is, however, a generally accepted practice in British grammar. (Sorry Frank; couldn't resist.)
FR: Copy editors (most of them) have gone the way of the linotype machines. We now rely on our readers to catch our gaffs, and our news editiors, one of whom apparently caught the error in the print version. BTW, copy editor is two words, according to the AP Stylebook.
Posted by: mededitor | March 21, 2011 9:01 AM