Distribution Of Rainfall In World Map

In mountainous areas, heavy precipitation is possible where upslope flow is maximized within windward sides of the terrain at elevation. Global and hemispheric land surface rainfall trend maps are available for annual and seasonal rainfall, covering periods starting from the beginning of each decade from 1900 to 1970 until present. In most of the country the average rainfall is between 15 and 45 in.

Animated hourly and daily weather forecasts on map Each day at about 1:30pm aest, rainfall values from up to 3000 sites across the country are analysed onto 0.25x0.25 and 0.05x0.05 degree grids with limited quality control. But, between 45° and 65° n and s of the equator, due to the westerlies, the rainfall is first received on the western margins of the continents and it goes on decreasing towards the east.

Rainfall amounts are estimates and consist of both rain gauge data and radar data.

In the united states the range is from less than 2 in. Digital rainfall images of arizona have been generated for all 12 months of 1980, 1981, 1982, and 1983 which correspond to normal, moderately dry, normal, and extremely wet. The village also holds the world record for the highest rainfall received in a calendar month after it received 370 inches of rainfall in july 1861. In the united states the range is from less than 2 in.