FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:
Jim Cumbie, in Baltimore, says Baseball writer Bill James has a new book in which he laments that there is no generally accepted objective measure for the rate of rainfall to help umpires decide when to call a game. “Is it true that nobody measures the rate of rainfall?” Jim asks. Bill needs a fact-checker. Many weather stations with rain gauges, including ours, can and do compute the rain rate in inches per hour. They report the rates in real time, and can sound an alarm at pre-set levels.
(SUN PHOTO: Our dusty Davis Vantage Pro2 weather station console, with rain rate readout)