Rainwater spike in first rainstorms of 2012 (please verify)

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2012-01-20 11:16

The time axis was mislabeled in the graph in my previous post. The data were collected post-Fukushima, starting in mid-March (not February) of 2011. I'll attach the corrected graph here...

-Stephan Heumann

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radon in your rainwater readings?

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2012-01-20 14:58.

http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/5108

Radon in rain discussed above.what type of detector are you using?

I don't know if you noticed,

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2012-01-20 15:52.

I don't know if you noticed, but this data is not from a detector but a dosimeter (this was indicated in the OP's first post a little ways down) that shows accumulated dose over time, not immediate rate of dose. So if it doubled overnight, that means that the dosimeter was exposed to several months worth of background radiation in a short time frame. I am doubting that radon in rainfall would do that, and in fact, think that the rainfall would have to be really "hot" to give that level of exposure.

To the OP - could you have been around a diagnostic or radiotherapy source of radiation? Have you been inside a hospital? Where do you live?

BC 1/21/12