Sign up here to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.Measuring rain might seem simple, just ...

Contributing personal observations via a community-based network of volunteers can help with weather and river forecasts.

While we often rely on weather reports to know how to care for our lawn and garden, they aren’t always accurate. Another, ...

A sewer district in Ohio is using rain gauge data, coupled with radar and other inputs, to better understand how rain events will impact its service area. The goal is to inform residents about extreme ...

It isn’t that hard to make an electronic rain gauge if you have a steady source of power or you don’t mind changing batteries often. But [Matthew Ford] offers a third option: a simple device ...

Most rain gauges just use a graduated cylinder to capture water as it falls from the sky. That will give you a reasonably accurate measure of how much it rained, but it tells you nothing about how ...

The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network is looking for volunteers in southeast Michigan to track ...