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Similarly, The Weather Network and the Guinness Book of Weather Records quote 335 days with rain here while (Simons 1996: 303) suggests that rain falls on 360 days per year. The local tourist industry of Kauai has promoted it as one of the wettest places on earth, which it is. The rainfall at Waiʻaleʻale is evenly distributed through the year.
Under the Köppen climate classification, Mawsynram features a subtropical highland climate (Cwb) with an extraordinarily showery, rainy and long monsoonal season and a short dry season. Based on the data of a recent few decades, it appears to be the wettest place in the world, or the place with the highest average annual rainfall. [6]
Puʻu Kukui receives an average of 386.5 inches (9,820 mm) of rain a year, [2] making it one of the wettest spots on Earth [3] and third wettest in the state after Big Bog on Maui and Mount Waiʻaleʻale on Kauai, [4] Rainwater unable to drain away flows into a bog. The soil is dense, deep, and acidic. [5]
While the summit of Mount Waiʻaleʻale on Kauai has long been considered the wettest place in the Hawaiian Islands, and was claimed to be the second wettest place on Earth, [2] its NOAA-reported annual rainfall of 373.85 inches (9,495.8 mm) [3] is exceeded by Big Bog's 30-year average.
Christmas or Hanukkah travel is underway for millions, and the weather may be a factor. For some, snow, rain, even a little ice could disrupt your plans. Here's what you need to know in order to ...
While rainfall in most of the interior Southwest will generally be under an inch from Saturday to Monday, some of the rainiest spots may receive 3-4 inches of rain and a higher risk of flash ...
Its proximity to the equator which is consistently hot and humid, gives Debundscha a long rainy season and a short dry season in a year. Debundscha's coastal location with the giant Mount Cameroon behind it, a giant mountain massive rising from the coast of the South Atlantic ocean to a height of about 4,095 metres (13,435 ft) [6] and blocking rain forming clouds from passing it results in ...
RAINIEST SPOTS. Downtown Los Angeles wasn't the only spot that received colossal amounts of rain. About 12 miles (19 kilometers) to the northwest, the hills of Bel Air got more than a foot — 12. ...