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The one really rainy city I lived in for a few years was Erie, PA. And what do you know, it's on this list I found on the internet as the seventh rainiest city in the US.
I will say on many summer days when it wasn't rainy, wow, it was just so lush and green. I did love summers there and interestingly enough summers are dry season. One November, though, it seemed like it rained every day of that month except maybe three days, and we started calling it "Dreary Erie". Erie is just two hours from Buffalo, NY which is know to get lots of rain and lots of snow.
I always think of Seattle, WA as being a rainy place too. On that internet list with link above, it didn't make the list, but did get an honorable mention.
I get Hilo making the #1 spot (all those beautiful tropical flowers are grown there). I've only been to Hilo once and yes it was raining the whole time and I thought about someone maybe dreaming of living in Hawaii (Ohau is known or perfect weather) or going to school there and surprise -- you get stuck in Hilo.
Interesting list and it appears that Great Lake area that get Lake effect snow are prone towards getting a lot of rain on average. Syracuse is on the list, but I’m thinking that other places like cities in western MI like Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo or Sault Ste. Marie in the Upper Peninsula also get relatively high rain totals.
Interesting list and it appears that Great Lake area that get Lake effect snow are prone towards getting a lot of rain on average. Syracuse is on the list, but I’m thinking that other places like cities in western MI like Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo or Sault Ste. Marie in the Upper Peninsula also get relatively high rain totals.
That list totals all days of precipitation, not just rain days. For example, the 172 "rain" days in Syracuse is really 101 days with rain and 71 days with snow.
Most Great Lakes snow days are "dry" snow that doesn't melt on surfaces or people, and can be brushed off (or shoveled). To me dry snow is preferable to rain or wet snow when doing things outdoors. And yes, lake effect does result in more precipitation during the cooler months of the year when air temperatures are below lake water temperature, but the lakes also produce the opposite effect on warm days as the colder lake surface inhibits cloud formation and rain.
I like rain, just not the storms that come along with it, and I don't wanna have to move to the PNW to get it, even tho cool, dreary weather is my kinda day. Better than snow/ice. Nice topic.
I like rain, just not the storms that come along with it, and I don't wanna have to move to the PNW to get it, even tho cool, dreary weather is my kinda day. Better than snow/ice. Nice topic.
The only places close to the dreariness of the PNW (outside Alaska) is in the great lakes region but still not quite as dire as the PNW. Some examples:
You can find this info under climate data on wikipedia for each of the cities listed above. Nothing is going to come close to rainy day numbers/amount for coastal Washington cities though (again except SE Alaska)...Forks is like 210 rainy days/100" of rain annually for example. I live in Olympia btw....163 rainy days/50" annually.
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