Na, rain drops in Seattle are usually small, compared to these big buckets we get down here in Florida :-) Not unusual to see 3 to 6 inches/hour of rain over a short period of time. That's the way it feels too if you are out when it happens...
Didier KO4BB David Forbes wrote: >Google led me to a paper written 10 years ago at by some folks at >Lincoln Labs that determined the GPS-rain delay value experimentally. >The paper is at > >http://gauss.gge.unb.ca/papers.pdf/ion96am.anthea.pdf > >and the results are up to 300 mm of delay to a GPS signal caused by >rain at MIT Haystack observatory and a few nearby places. That's on >the order of one nanosecond, so it's not much delay in the big scheme >of things. But there are places with more water in the air than >Boston, as has been pointed out. I think Seattle may qualify from >time to time. > >I personally can't offer much experimental data, since we haven't had >measurable rain in Tucson for six months now. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts