 | 1866 - 306 pages
...may be adopted ; it is well to try them all. (I) Melt what is caught in the funnel, and measure that as rain. (2.) Select a place where the snow has not...Measure with a rule the average depth of snow, and take a twelfth as the equivalent of water. (Comparative observations of this class will be very acceptable.)"... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1868 - 512 pages
...1. Melt what is caught in the funnel, and measure it as rain. '2. Select a place where the snow lias not drifted, invert the funnel, and turning it round,...and take one-twelfth (~) as the equivalent of water. On the subjects of when, where, and why rain is measured, our author is just as communicative of facts... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1870 - 836 pages
...may be adopted ; it is well to try them all. (1) Melt what is caught in the funnel, and measure that as rain. (2) Select a place where the snow . has not...snow, and take one-twelfth as the equivalent of water. Some observers use in snowy wea- ' thcr a cylinder of the same diameter as the rain-gauge, I and of... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1870 - 844 pages
...may be adopted ; it is well to try them all. (1) Melt what is caught in the funnel, and measure that as rain. (2) Select a place where the snow has not...snow, and take one-twelfth as the equivalent of water. Some observers use in snowy weather a cylinder of the same diameter as the rain-gauge, and of considerable... | |
 | Spon E. & F.N., ltd - 1874 - 464 pages
...may be adopted — it is well to try them all. 1. Melt what is caught in the funnel, and measure that as rain. 2. Select a place where the snow has not...snow, and take one-twelfth as the equivalent of water. Some observers use in snowy weather a cylinder of the same diameter as the rain-gauge, and of considerable... | |
 | Edward Spon - 1874 - 460 pages
...may be adopted — it is well to try them all. 1. Molt what is caught in the funnel, and measure that as rain. 2. Select a place where the snow has not...Measure with a rule the average depth of snow, and lake one-twelfth as the equivalent of water. Some observers use in snowy weather a cylinder of the... | |
 | Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne, Ernest Spon, Francis N. Spon - 1874 - 460 pages
...adopted — it is well to try them all. 1. Melt what is caught in the funnel, and measure that as ruin. 2. Select a place where the snow has not drifted,...Measure with a rule the average depth of snow, and take one-twcltth as the equivalent of water. Some observers use in snowy weather a cylinder of the same... | |
 | Ernest Spon - 1875 - 406 pages
...may be adopted — it is well to try them all. 1. Melt what is caught in the funnel, and measure that as rain. 2. Select a place where the snow has not...snow, and take one-twelfth as the equivalent of water. Some observers use in snowy weather a cylinder of the same diameter as the rain-gauge, and of considerable... | |
 | Alexander Wynter Blyth - 1876 - 700 pages
...quantity of warm water, and then deductng this quantity from the total measurement, enter the residuo as rain. (2.) Select a place where the snow has not drifted, invert the funnel, and turning t round, lift snd mult what is enclosed. (3.) Meaiure with a rule the average depth of snow, and take... | |
 | Alexander Wynter Blyth - 1876 - 702 pages
...water, and then deducting this quantity from the total measurement, enter the residue as rain, (u.) Select a place where the snow has not drifted, invert the funnel, and turning It round, liftsnd m. H what is enclosed. (3.) Measure with a rule the average depth of snow, and take one-twelfth... | |
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... as rain. (2) Select a place where the snow has not drifted, invert the funnel, and turning it round, lift and melt what is enclosed. 
