>>302062>>302093>>302176I have this graduated cylinder here that goes up to 100mL and it has increments in milliliters. I've seen the rain gauges but likewise, they are listed in inches (instead of milliliters). The problem I have is that I know the next time it rains, if I put this outside, it would fill up all the way to 100mL and overfill. Same with most of those rain gauges in inches. Where I get confused is I think "wow, it filled up all the way! Did we really have X inches of rain??" then I turn on the news and the weather forecaster says "we had 0.15 inches of rain this week which is alot less than usual" and I think about my rain gauge that had, say 9-10 inches of rain and overfilled and wonder why the news guy said it was 0.15 inches (or some ridiculously small amount that disagrees with what I see in person so I figured there was a more scientific way of doing this when they talk about rainfall in big cities (or similarly, how many "inches of water" are needed for a plant like the tomatoes)
