Either way you would like to know how much rain has fallen how many gallons have come down from the skies onto your roof yard block or town.
Gallons of water per square foot of roof.
To calculate the runoff from any given rainfall.
Or maybe a low pressure cell has been napping overhead and your arm is hurting from holding that umbrella while you watch your basement fill up with water.
Understanding how many gallons are within a square foot of water is useful in determining the amount of water required to fill a structure such as a pool or a pond.
If your average rainfall was 25 inches year your annual collection potential is 1 120 x 25 28 000 gallons year.
The answer is about 623 gallons.
Take a guess what is the volume of water that runs off a 1 000 square foot roof during a 1 rain storm.
Per day it would take just short of 6 days to lower the level by 1 inch.
For example on a 2 000 square foot roof you can collect 2 000 x 0 56 1 120 gallons inch of rain.
When you look at the numbers it s surprising how much water you can collect every time it rains.
1 inch of water over a 5000 acre area equals 135 771 500 gallons.
Rain barrel supplies list.
So a 50 x 20 roof is 600.
To get an idea how much water the roof of your own house might yield use the rainfall harvest calculator above.
Take the dimensions of the footprint of your roof and convert them to inches.