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So from another thread about picking months from your own city in the past to make different climates, I looked at the driest months since 1949 and was surprised just how dry it was here!
Add the driest months in the history of your location and see just how dry you can get for a year in your city..
Not lived 'ere long and don't know about many of the driest months. But I do know that anything less than 1,000mm of rain in a year in Buxton would be considered bone dry.
Pittsburgh/KPIT. The NWS there has records dating to 1836, but full temperature records only date to 1875. That's why Oct 1924, 2nd driest Oct, is used instead of Oct 1874.
Years: 1981, 1969, 1910, 1971, 1911, 1894, 1894, 1894, 1985, 1924, 1904, 1955
Miami/KMIA. Apparently the monsoon can fail
Years: 1951, 1944, 1956, 1981, 1965, 1931, 1932, 1938, 1912, 2002, 1970, 1988
Yakutat/PAYA. YAK, w/o the underline, is apparently censored here. The Aleutian Express never fails to deliver in autumn here... Feb 1989 had a snowpack of over 40"/102 cm the entire month, which explains the unnaturally large diurnal temp range for a coastal spot.
Years: 1930, 1989, 1958, 1948, 2009, 1936, 1920, 2007, 1986, 1950, 2006, 1922
Not going to do DC/Balt as they are similar in driest-month records to PIT and producing these is tedious.
Jan 1986 - 0.201"
Feb 1978 - 1.331"
Mar 1987 - 1.197"
Apr 1986 - 0.539"
May 2005 - 0.547"
June 2012 - 0.256"
July 1986 - 0.783"
Aug 2007 - 0.232"
Sept 1983 - 0.453"
Oct 2005 - 0.024"
Nov 2009 - 0.551"
Dec 1985 - 1.016"
Luqa probably has no doubt recorded drier months, but I can't find any detailed records, only that the driest year on record was 1947 when 228mm was recorded...
Wow.. I did not realise how dry a lot of places have been! Especially oceanic cities like mine receiving around 50mm in a year! (when you cherrypick months, of course)
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The Aleutian Express never fails to deliver in autumn here... Feb 1989 had a snowpack of over 40"/102 cm the entire month, which explains the unnaturally large diurnal temp range for a coastal spot. 
