“Oh yeah? well, my grand-great uncle worked at the Orem, Utah NOAA office in 1835. He was lonely, because Utah wasn’t a state yet, no telegraph, and the Mormons didn’t like him.”
And that has just what to do with the accuracy of measuring rain fall back then???
NOAA is the weather office. By the way, the story was made up to show how ridiculous the claim is. No one was measuring rain in Orem Utah, or Bozeman, Montana, etc.