Where does the most precipitation fall? Detailed answer

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Where does the most precipitation fall?

Many factors determine how much rain or snow falls on the earth's surface. These are temperature, altitude, location of mountain ranges, etc. Probably the rainiest place in the world is Mount Waialeale in Hawaii, on the island of Kauai. The average annual rainfall here is 1197 cm. Cherrapunji in India may have the second highest rainfall with an average annual level of 1079 to 1143 cm.

Once 381 cm of rain fell in Cherrapunji in 5 days. And in 1861, the amount of precipitation reached 2300 cm! To make it clearer, let's compare rainfall in some cities around the world, London gets 61 cm of rain per year, Edinburgh about 68 cm and Cardiff about 76 cm. New York gets about 101 cm of rain. Ottawa in Canada gets 86 cm, Madrid about 43 cm and Paris 55 cm. So you see what a contrast Cherrapunji is.

The driest place in the world is probably Arica in Chile. Here the rainfall is 0,05 cm per year. The driest place in the US is Rancho Greenland in Death Valley. There, the average annual rainfall is less than 3,75 cm. In some vast regions of the Earth, heavy showers occur all year round. For example, almost every point along the equator receives 152 cm or more of precipitation each year. The equator is the junction of two large air currents. Throughout the equator, air moving down from the north meets air moving up from the south.

There is a major upward movement of hot air mixed with water vapor. As the air rises to colder altitudes, a large amount of water vapor condenses and falls as rain.

Most of the rain falls on the windward side of the mountains. The other side, called the leeward side, receives much less precipitation. An example is the Cascade Mountains in California. Westerly winds carrying water vapor move from the Pacific Ocean. Having reached the coast, the air rises along the western slopes of the mountains, cooling. Cooling causes the condensation of water vapor, which falls as rain or snow.

Author: Likum A.

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