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See the maps here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/this-simple-great-map-shows-that-seattle-is-far-from-america-s-rainiest-city https://www.b
by madcaptenor 11mo ago
See the maps here: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/this-simple-great-map-shows-that-seattle-is-far-from-america-s-rainiest-city https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-17/this-simp...
Most of the eastern US gets more inches of precipitation than Seattle. But there are few places (mostly in a band from eastern Ohio and West Virginia, across Upstate New York, through to northern New England) that have more days with measurable precipitation than Seattle.
Someone also pulled data on the fifty largest cities: https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/01/16/how-rainy-seattle-its-not-even-top-30-major-us-cities-13733 https://www.acsh.org/news/2019/01/16/how-rainy-seattle-its-n.... Seattle is 32nd for amount of rain but 5th (behind Buffalo, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh in the band I mentioned, and also its neighbor Portland) for number of rainy days.
- taeric 11mo agoI think that is basically the map I was asking for, so kudos on that. I still think it fails to capture what it means to be a rainy day. Is about like when Seattle has a snow day. If you are from a place that actually gets snow, you'd scoff at us calling it a snow storm. I think my favorite is the few times it thunders. People would all move to windows in a sort of awe at the loud noise.
- madcaptenor 11mo agoYeah, you want some threshold for amount of rain that's higher than "measurable precipitation".