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Meteorologists, or weather experts, measure rainfall and snowfall in inches. They let falling rain collect in a cylinder, and can tell how many inches have fallen by seeing how far the rain fills up the cylinder. If your weatherman says that an inch of rain fell on your town, it means that if the ground didn’t absorb the rain, i
