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Information provided recently by IDEAM (Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies), the Colombian meteorological service, indicates that one of his official sites called Port Lopez de Micay in the Department of the Cauca, pacific region has an annual average rainfall of 12,892.4 mm for the period of April 1960 - February 2012 (last month of the one that arranges of information, though the site is still in operation).
Nevertheless, there are important lagoons in the record from 1960, specially during the period 1968-1979. Despite this it there exist complete records of 31 years in total (until 2011) and in the records only they are absent four months from 1991. Taking the average for these 31 complete years of information the annual average really works out a bit higher in 13,466.3 mm. The was most rainy year a 1984 with an amazing quantity of 23.818 mm (937.72") and the driest with 6.195 mm (243.90'') in 1980 (both years with complete information).
Almost as this there is incredible the number of days of measurable rainfall that totalled 353 days in 1984 and 355 days in 1985 (with 19.444 mm/765.51 ") that were registered.
Almost two years of daily rains. The rainfall falls more or less uniformly throughout the year of approximately 899 mm in February to 1197 mm in May. The most rainy month of which witness is had was an August, 1984 when one measured 3015 mm. This is not a particularly impressive information in view of the average annual accumulation of the site and this way it illustrates cuan persistently and enclosed it is the rain from month to month.
And it's only at 80 metres! Surely somewhere further up will get even more - this place is at the foot of the Andes, right? I'd love to know how their ecosystem copes with getting 35mm of rain every day and also how much sun a place like that can get.
owenc how is 800mm of rain to much? I live in a climate with 1500mm of rain and i would'nt mind more
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