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According to the National Geographic Society, it rains and average of about 1,170 centimeters a year on Mount Waialeale.
No. The rainiest location in the U.S. is Mount Waialeale in Hawaii which averages 460 inches of rain per year.
Mount Waialeale
In the US, the wettest place is Mount Waialeale in the state of Hawaii. It gets about 450 inches of rain per year. The wettest place on Earth is in the Khasi Hills of northeastern India. They get about 460 inches of rain per year.
Kaua`i: In the center of the island is Kawaikini Peak, rising 5,170 feet and Mount Waialeale, rising 5,080 feet. Mount Waialeale is the rainiest spot on earth, averaging 460 inches of rain a year, and contributing to this island's nickname; the Garden Island.Though Mt. Waialeale is believed to have maximum rain, it rains maximum in Mawsynram, Meghalaya, India. Since, it does not have a meteorological department, Cherrapunji is reported as wettest place on the Earth, with a whopping average of 1270 centimeters, or 496 inches of rain (over 41 feet).
Hawaii, mount waialeale gets 460 inches of rain all year
According to the National Geographic Society, it rains and average of about 1,170 centimeters a year on Mount Waialeale.
No. The rainiest location in the U.S. is Mount Waialeale in Hawaii which averages 460 inches of rain per year.
Mount Waialeale
Mount Waialeale (meaning rippling water or overflowing water) is a shield volcano with an elevation 5,148 feet on the island of Kaua'i, in Hawaii. It is known as the "wettest spot on earth" because rainfall averages 426 inches a year on the mountain summit. A record 683 inches of rain fell on Mount Waialeale in 1982. The area around the volcano is known as the Alaka'i Wilderness Preserve, a tropical wetland that spawns many rare plants.
In the US, the wettest place is Mount Waialeale in the state of Hawaii. It gets about 450 inches of rain per year. The wettest place on Earth is in the Khasi Hills of northeastern India. They get about 460 inches of rain per year.
Cherrapunji, India receives 498 inches per year. Mousinram, India receives 11420 mm per year. Cropp River, Hokitika, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand, over 365 days: 18,442mm
In the continental US the area with the highest average rainfall is the hoh rainforest on the Olympic peninsula in Washington state, with roughly 140 inches per year. However Mount Waialeale on Kauai, Hawaii receives nearly 460 inches per year. The word Waialeale actually means overflowing water in Hawaiian, credit to the namer!
It gets an average of 426 inches of rain per year and set a record in 1982 with 683 inches of rainfall.
The wettest places on Earth are difficult to measure. After doing some research for the Wikipedia article on Rain, this are the figures I included there: Cherrapunji, India, averages 11,430 mm (450 in). The highest recorded rainfall in a single year was 22,987 mm (904.9 inches) in 1861. The 38-year average at Mawsynram, Meghalaya, India is 11,873 mm (467.4 inches), but the record is taken by a peon of the Department of Public Works. Tutunendo, a small town situated in Chocó, Colombia is one of the places with a larger measured rainfall in the world, averaging 11,394 mm per year (448 in). In 1974 the town received 26,303 mm (1,035.6 in), which is the largest figure I found. Finally, Mount Waialeale on the island of Kauaʻi in the Hawaiian Islands averages more than 460 inches (11,680 mm) of rain over the last 32 years, with a record 683 inches (17,340 mm) in 1982. In 1850, Joseph Dalton Hooker, a Royal Navy doctor turned naturalist, who spent the monsoon months at Cherrapunji, recorded variations in measured rain. "He was puzzled by the curiously localised patterns of rain; move your gauge a few hundred yards and it registered only half as much as before", writes Alexander Frater in his book, 'Chasing the Monsoon'. This shows that recording the rainfall at the most humids places on earth has always been a difficult task for weathermen.
Mt. Waialeale on Kauai in Hawaii, receives more rain in a year than any other place in the world. Records show an average of 460 inches from 1931 to 1960, which is over 38 feet of rain a year.
With an average of over 472 inches or 39 feet (12 meters) of precipitation each year, Mt. Waialeale on Hawaii's Kauai Island is the rainiest and wettest spot on the planet.