About Barograph
Barograph started as one household's paper log and grew into a small, independent site about keeping a long backyard weather record honestly — what it takes to trust a reading, and what gets lost when a season is reduced to one number.
Mission
We write for people who already keep, or are thinking about keeping, some kind of home weather record — a thermometer on the porch, a rain gauge in the yard, a barometer by the door. The goal is plain, specific writing about method: how to place an instrument, how to check it against something you trust, and how to read a long series without over-reading a single day.
We are not a forecasting service and we do not sell instruments, subscriptions to data feeds, or consulting. The companion app, Raingauge Log, is a free logbook tool built to match the method described on the site.
Who writes this
R. Halden
Station Log, EditorKeeps the primary noon-reading series referenced across the site and edits incoming field notes for clarity and consistency of units.
M. Onyekwere
Calibration NotesWrites most of the calibration and instrument-drift pieces, drawing on a decade of parallel-instrument comparisons.
S. Farrow
Raingauge Log, MaintainerBuilds and maintains the companion app, and writes the occasional piece on turning a paper log into something searchable.
Content policy
- Every field note is drawn from an actual logged observation or a described method; we do not publish invented data presented as a real reading.
- We do not accept payment to write about a specific instrument brand, and we do not run product reviews.
- Numbers in older posts are left as originally logged, even when later entries show a different pattern — we correct with a follow-up note rather than editing the original.
- We link to the Glossary and FAQ rather than repeating background explanation in every post.
- Corrections are welcome and are appended visibly to the piece they concern, not made silently.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or a field note of your own to suggest: notes@barograph.shop.