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America's Rainiest City?
Ketchikan, Alaska is known for two things: salmon and rain. I know this well as I have been here several times visiting family. The combination of wind and rain often makes it feel like you are living in a car wash. Ketchikan, which is located on the inland passage in southeast Alaska, has fully embraced it's status at the Rain City . It proudly displays a "liquid sunshine gauge" on the boat dock showing just how wet it is. A closeup shows that they claim an average rainfall of 12.5 ft (150") per year. That's a lot of rain and, perhaps not surprisingly, Ketchikan is widely promoted as the rainiest city in America (e.g., destimationalaska.com ). Being a meteorologist, I began to wonder if this was really the case. There are the usual challenges in evaluating such a claim. What is meant by a city? What is the period of record? Is the data reliable? Etc... For the purposes of this post, we'll concentrate on clima...
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ReplyDeleteAdam, I agree with you. But as Jim points out, couldn't have better weather for voting... and for digging skis and snow shovels out of the garage.
ReplyDeleteI vote for winter, and less political banter.
ReplyDeleteIn the satellite image above, what accounts for the strange dappled radar over Texas and the midwest?
ReplyDeleteThose are commonly called "clear air returns," which can be produced by atmospheric turbulence and "non meteorological" targets, such as ground clutter (from topography or buildings), bugs, etc.
DeleteMaybe the radar is picking up clusters of people standing in line at polling locations. Teasing, of course.
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