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Measuring rainfall properly: tipping bucket rain gauges, installation height, calibration, maintenance and recording intensity, not just the total.
The week in four signals and the tipping-bucket rain gauge guide, three European signals with their sources (Spain's warmest summer since at least 1869, Spanish reservoir storage and the new European Water Academy) and the close of the hydrological year on 30 September.
A tipping-bucket rain gauge loses rain to wind and to its own mechanics, and the second loss grows with intensity. What four peer-reviewed studies say about installation height, dynamic calibration and maintenance.
AEMET expects a week of full summer, with little rain until at least Friday 25th, and an autumn probably warmer than normal. Four official signals and, for each, what to measure and with what care, starting with the rain gauge.
