Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/2017 March 16

= March 16 =

What's the world's rainiest and driest settlement with >19,999 people?
By most average days per year with rain and highest average number of years between rains. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 15:31, 16 March 2017 (UTC)


 * I don't know. I know that Arica, Chile is often regarded as the driest place on earth, but the standard way of measuring this is in annual precipitation. Our article discusses the rather uncommon climate there. See here for a list of other top driest places. As for most rainy days, Guiness  says that is Mount_Waialeale. By annual precip, see Mawsynram, and the links therein, leading eventually to the town of López_de_Micay. SemanticMantis (talk) 19:27, 16 March 2017 (UTC)