Mean maximum and minimum temperatures and monthly rainfall were collected on site during each field trip and between field trips using a standard rain gauge and maximum/minimum thermometer.
It was the first hurricane in which a rain gauge was used.
Priestley's rain gauge and perambulator (a wheelbarrow for recording distances) delighted them.
Russell also invented various self-recording barometers, thermometers, anemometers and rain gauges.
A rain gauge was installed at one farm.
Rainfall was measured using a standard rain gauge.
For regions with half of this amount of precipitation, errors in rain gauge measurements would probably amplify these results.
Precipitation was measured with a standard rain gauge adjacent to the plots.
