Driest and Wettest Major U.S. Cities Update 12/12

Posted by GSG Fantasy Snowfall on December 13, 2010
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By Patrick – Need to hijack Stephen’s post for a second just to say that we did a full update on all of the snowiest cities in the US and it’s getting tighter near the top :) We now return to Stephen ;)

Remember that only cities with a population of 100,000 or more, and have stats available on the NWS climate pages, are eligible to be on this list. In all, I am keeping track of precipitation stats for 152 cities in the United States. Of the 152, the top 5 driest and top 5 wettest will be posted here.

Data is from December 12th.

Driest Major U.S. Cities
Rank City Precipitation
1 Las Vegas, NV 4.26
2 El Paso, TX 6.51
3 Bakersfield, CA 6.91
4 Palmdale, CA 7.58
5 Albuquerque, NM 7.89

Wettest Major U.S. Cities
Rank City Precipitation
1 San Juan, PR 84.00
2 Miami, FL 63.96
3 Mobile, AL 59.04
4 Nashville, TN 58.41
5 Fort Lauderdale, FL 58.39

Just for fun, here’s how the top 5 snowiest cities stack up against each other in precipitation amounts.

Snowiest Major U.S. Cities
Snow Rank City Precipitation
1 Syracuse, NY 40.82
2 Minneapolis, MN 31.86
3 Spokane, WA 17.29
4 Rochester, NY 37.01
5 Anchorage, AK 15.93

I’ll try and do a better job of updating these a little more frequently as we’re approaching the end of the year.

Have a great week everyone!

2 comments on “Driest and Wettest Major U.S. Cities Update 12/12”

    • Hi Kip, good question.

      The tables I made are for liquid equivalent precipitation from January through December, not snowfall. As you might guess, one inch of rain has much more water than once inch of snow, so their liquid equivalents will not be the same. So, as of this post, Syracuse has had 40.82 inches of liquid equivalent precipitation since January 1st, some of it was in the form of rain, while some was in the form of snow or ice.

      I should have explained this better, and I’ll keep that in mind on the next update. :)

      This was something I wanted to do during the offseason, but as you can see, that did not work out so well. ;)

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