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The amount of snow received at weather stations varies substantially from year to year. For example, the annual snowfall at Paradise Ranger Station in Mount Rainier National Park has been as little as 266 inches (680 cm) in 2014-2015 and as much as 1,122 inches (2,850 cm) in 1971–1972.
The average annual rainfall for the island is 86 inches (2,200 mm). [74] There is a distinct dry season from January to June, and a rainy season from July to December. [75] Typhoons frequent the island, which can lead to excessive rainfall. During El Niño years, dry season precipitation averages below normal.
If Dallas - where the yearly historical snowfall average is 1.6 inches – gets half a foot of snow, it would be among the "top-five snowfalls on record," according to AccuWeather.
The snowfall brought by a massive winter storm has largely subsided, but cities across the the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions remain blanketed in several inches – or even feet – of snow. For ...
For example, Boston's average snowfall is 14.3 inches in January and 14.4 inches in February. New York City has averaged 8.8 inches in January and 10.1 Inches in February.
A 2007 estimate of snow cover over the Northern Hemisphere suggested that, on average, snow cover ranges from a minimum extent of 2 million square kilometres (0.77 × 10 ^ 6 sq mi) each August to a maximum extent of 45 million square kilometres (17 × 10 ^ 6 sq mi) each January or nearly half of the land surface in that hemisphere.
Philadelphia received only 0.32 of an inch of rain from Sept. 29 through Nov. 19, which is 6% of the historical average. Rainfall is only 14% of the average for New York City, 15% for Boston and ...
Rainfall in these regions averages between 300 and 600 millimeters (11.8 and 23.6 in) per year, with lower amounts across Baja California Norte. Average rainfall totals are between 600 and 1,000 millimeters (23.6 and 39.4 in) in most of the major populated areas of the southern altiplano, including Mexico City and Guadalajara.