Ok, the SandCastle just took a direct hit by one of the strongest set of thunderstorm cells I've ever seen. Thunder was continuous and sounded more like a jet engine. Power is out all over town. Local news reports we received ~1.5 inches of rain in about 30 minutes. The streets are flooded, as is my yard. No word yet on any trees felled in the neighborhood. And Round 3 is on the way.
And across the street, the neighbor's sprinklers are on making sure the grass gets a good dose!
You can get water sensors for your sprinkler system that suspend the schedule for a period of time whenever it gets X amount of rain. I've heard that in some drought prone places they are required by law.
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I'm sure your right such sensors are available. Because you mentioned it, I took a look at HD to see what was available...
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You just needed to look some more...
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Will show you the Toro ECXTRA system, which lists a feature called "Rain Delay", which has two methods. One is using your PC to tell it to stop watering for X days because it rained. The other requires a rain sensor:
http://www.toro.com/sprinklers/timers/ecxtra/53765.html
The only reason I know some people had come up with these is that my brother was working a rain sensing delay system when at least one other company came out with it and he gave up his plans.