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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]
Memphis is the rainiest city in Tennessee, which has three entries in the top 20 list of rainiest U.S. cities. April (the wettest month) and August (the driest month) bookend Memphis’ summers ...
Whether you're heading home or going somewhere fun to celebrate New Years Eve, the busy holiday travel period continues, and weather may be a factor. For some, snow, rain, thunderstorms, fog, even ...
12 inches: One of the rainiest spots in Los Angeles County was in the hills of Bel Air. The neighbourhood – which is around 12 miles to the northwest of the city received 12.01 inches of rain ...
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.
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 ...