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To: Neeka who wrote (144017)	5/23/2007 11:23:30 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

How is this for a shocker? And the rainiest city in the U.S. is... Mobile — not Seattle — ranks highest in the contiguous 48 states Which city is the wettest in the lower 48 U.S. states? America's rainiest city Mobile, Ala., has an average rainfall total of 66 inches, or 5 feet, which gives the port city the rank of No. 1. WPMI's The rainiest city in the U.S.A. is... Mobile! By Andrea Thompson Do you think Seattle is the rainiest city in the United States? Well, think again. Mobile, Ala., actually topped a new list of soggiest cities in the contiguous 48 states, with more than 5 feet of rainfall annually, according to a study conducted by San Francisco-based WeatherBill, Inc. The Southeast dominated the most rainy list, while the Pacific Northwest never enters the list until Olympia, Washington pops up at number 24. The 10 rainiest cities in the U.S. by amount of annual rainfall include: Mobile, Ala.: 67 inches average annual rainfall; 59 average annual rainy days Pensacola, Fla.: 65 inches average annual rainfall; 56 average annual rainy days New Orleans, La.: 64 inches average annual rainfall; 59 average annual rainy days West Palm Beach, Fla.: 63 inches average annual rainfall; 58 average annual rainy days Lafayette, La.: 62 inches average annual rainfall; 55 average annual rainy days Baton Rouge, La.: 62 inches average annual rainfall; 56 average annual rainy days Miami, Fla.: 62 inches average annual rainfall; 57 average annual rainy days Port Arthur, Texas: 61 inches average annual rainfall; 51 average annual rainy days Tallahassee, Fla.: 61 inches average annual rainfall; 56 average annual rainy days Lake Charles, La.: 58 inches average annual rainfall; 50 average annual rainy days The study ranked 195 cities in the contiguous 48 states by the amount of rainfall they received annually over a 30-year period, although Olympia actually had the most rainy days on average across the three decades (63) of all the cities in the study. Mobile came in second on the latter scale, with 59 average annual rainy days. (Several cities in Alaska and Hawaii actually receive more than 100 inches of rain a year, but were not included in the study.) Southeastern cities are so prevalent on the list because the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico fuel storms that frequently soak the region, particularly between June and November.