Taking 1 inch to be about 2.5cm, an inch of rain on an area of 1m2 is approximatley 0.025m3, or 25000cm3. That is 25000ml or 25l of water.
12" x 12" x 1"= 144 cubic inches, which is equal to .623 gallons therefore a one thousand square foot roof receiving one inch of rain will catch 623 gallons.
The idea is to divide the number of inches of rain by the number of hours. That will give you the unit rain, in inches per hour.
Grammatically, "Does the rain" is correct. Rain may represent many individual rain drops, which is why "Do rain drops" would be correct, however rain represents it as a whole, so "Does the rain" is the appropriate form.
The proper slope for newly installed gutters is 1/4 inch of slope for every 10 feet of gutter. This slope keeps water from standing after a heavy rain.
No, it is not. The word rain is a noun, which can be used as an adjunct with other nouns as in rain cloud, rain barrel,and rain gauge. There is an adjective (rainy) and an adverb form (rainily) that is virtually never used.
25 litres per square metre
rain gauge
1 litre.
1 litre will be collected per square meter of surface area from one millimeter of rain
12" x 12" x 1"= 144 cubic inches, which is equal to .623 gallons therefore a one thousand square foot roof receiving one inch of rain will catch 623 gallons.
An inch of rain implies water one inch deep per surface area. An inch of rain equals 5.61 gallons per yard. An inch of rain equals 27,150 gallons per acre.
one inch of rain over one square mile equals 17.4 millions pounds (about 72,000 tons)
1 gallon
1 inch
The amount of time it will take for one inch of rain to fall will vary. One inch of rain can fall in as little as 15 minutes in heavy downpour. It could also take up to several hours. It is mainly based upon the intensity of rainfall.
One inch of rain over one square foot is 1/12 cubic foot of water. A cubic foot of water weighs about 62.4 pounds. 1/12 of that is about 5.2 pounds.
1 acre = 43,560 square feet1 inch = 1/12 footVolume = 43,560 x 1/12 = 3,630 cubic feet = 27,154.3 gallons (rounded)