Sign up here to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.Measuring rain might seem simple, just put out a bucket and see how much water collects, right? But meteorologists ...

Most rain gauges just use a graduated cylinder to capture water as it falls from the sky. That will give you a reasonably accurate measure of how much it rained, but it tells you nothing about how ...

Why does water fall as rain? NARRATION: Wherever you live on the ... for England’s rainiest place and put it … in this bucket. TO CAMERA: So, we have four cubic metres of water in the bucket ...