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Re:San Francisco just had its second-rainiest day since 1849 by O__________O on Sunday January 01, 2023 @03:53PM (#34210751)
What are the odds that the “tipping-bucket rain gauge” was impacted by being repeatedly shook by the storm, triggering the counters — or some other source of error, fraud, etc.?

Is there data for cyclonic rainfall that might be modeled for similar to how this article titled “How can we call something a thousand-year storm if we don’t have a thousand years of climate observations” is?

http://www.climate.gov/news-features/event-tracker/how-can-w...

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Re:San Francisco just had its second-rainiest day since 1849 by dsfyu404ed on Sunday January 01, 2023 @05:51PM (#34211936)
Exactly. It must be measurement error. 1.8m across the kind of area that rains falls is a "scour everything down to bedrock" level of water. It just doesn't check out. When you get that much water in one place the results make the history books.
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Re:San Francisco just had its second-rainiest day since 1849 by prottog on Sunday January 01, 2023 @09:44PM (#34213643)
Mount Waialeale on Kaua'i supposedly received 683 inches in 1982[0], so perhaps it's not totally inconceivable that some other tropical place received about a tenth of that in a day?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Waialeale

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Re:San Francisco just had its second-rainiest day since 1849 by lostlogin on Monday January 02, 2023 @01:21AM (#34214963)
There are other records that are also ridiculous, though a lot less - check this list.

http://www.bom.gov.au/water/designRainfalls/rainfallEvents/w...

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