Mike Keitz writes:
>This is a standard device that I think is still the state of the art in
>rain measurement.  To keep wind, etc. from affecting it the bucket
>mechanism is enclosed and placed under a large funnel that forms the top
>of the gauge.

        I am glad somebody has actually seen one of these.  It was long
enough ago that I forgot all the important details that would actually
make it work right.

Martin McCormick