With an average annual rainfall exceeding 4,000 millimetres (160 in), and the highest-ever annual rainfall in a populated area of Australia (7,900 millimetres (310 in) in 1950), Tully is arguably the wettest town in Australia. A rivalry exists between Tully and the nearby town of Babinda for that title.
As we can be seen in the graph below, Tasmania was undoubtedly the wettest Australian state in 2022, as it usually is. The Tasmanian city of Queenstown is one of the wettest places in the whole of Australia, experiencing about 150 days of rain per year.
Mawsynram, Meghalaya, India
For those who don't know, Mawsynram in Meghalaya, India, is the wettest place on the Earth, with an average annual rainfall of 11,871 mm. Set some 15 km from Cherrapunji, this picturesque town in the East Khasi Hills district attracts travellers from across the globe.
MULLUMBIMBY, NSW
One of the rainiest and most humid places in Australia, Mullumbimby experiences incredibly high rainfall. On average, it receives over two metres of rainfall each year.
Coastal belt:
The coastal belt receives the most rainfall in NSW (800 – 3000 mm per year). The Northern coastal regions, from Lismore to Newcastle, receive the most rainfall, but the whole of the coastal region is a relatively high rainfall area.
Cherrapunji, Meghalaya State, India
Ironically, despite of being the second wettest place on Earth, residents of this village face water shortages in winter when no rain falls at all for months at a time. During the wet season, incessant rains lash the region, sometimes for 15-21 days at a stretch.
For years, two villages have claimed the title as the wettest place on earth. Mawsynram and Cherrapunji are just 10 miles apart, but Mawsynram beats its competitor by a mere 4 inches of rainfall. Although it doesn't rain all day in Meghalaya, it does rain every day, Chapple told weather.com.
The wettest country on Earth is Colombia. Colombia has the world's highest precipitation rate, estimated at 3,240 millimeters per year (127 inches).
Liawenee is the coldest permanently-inhabited place in Australia.
The city of Perth has the best weather/climate in Australia. The city enjoys a temperate Mediterranean climate with hot and dry summers and mild but wet winters. Perth is also the sunniest capital city in Australia and is considered one of the hottest experiencing over 250+ days of sunny blue skies.
South Australia is the driest of the Australian states. Only about one-fifth of the area receives annual precipitation of more than 10 inches (250 mm), and less than half of that has more than 16 inches (400 mm).
Australia's rain capital, Cairns, suffers 117 rainy days per year.
This is due to its strong exposure to the southeasterly trade winds. With an average annual rainfall exceeding 4,000 millimetres (160 in), and the highest-ever annual rainfall in a populated area of Australia (7,900 millimetres (310 in) in 1950), Tully is arguably the wettest town in Australia.
While many people have already moved to Tasmania to escape the heat in other states, some doomsday preppers are weighing up the island state as a post-apocalyptic option. Tasmania scored highly in the report in terms of its climate, electricity supply, agricultural resources and population density.
An incredible 331 consecutive days of measurable rainfall were recorded at Manuawili Ranch, Maui, in 1939-40. If you include a trace of rain, the record is 881 consecutive days, or nearly three straight years, at Honomu Maki, Oahu, from 1913 to 1916.
Have you ever wondered what the driest city in the world is? Well, we can tell you that the settlement that is considered the driest in the world is Arica, located in the region of Arica and Parinacota, in the extreme north of Chile. Arica is located in the Atacama Desert, considered the driest desert on the planet.
The Atacama Desert is the driest place in the world. Located in Arica, Chile, its annual rainfall is only 0.03 inches.
Mawsynram, a town of Meghalaya in northeastern India, receives the highest amount of average annual rainfall in the world. Yes, Mawsynram is the wettest place in the world!
The world's lowest average yearly precipitation in 0.03" (0.08 cm) during a 59-year period at Arica Chile. Lane notes that no rainfall has ever been recorded at Calama in the Atacama Desert, Chile.
The most extreme rainfall deficiencies over multi-year periods occurred in the northern half of New South Wales. This is the reverse of the situation during the Millennium drought, when the most extreme rainfall deficiencies were in the southern basin with more modest deficits in the north.
Over half of New South Wales is arid to semi-arid, but most areas of the eastern portion have a temperate climate and high levels of rainfall, ranging from humid subtropical on the northern coast and oceanic on the southern coast.
LAKE EYRE (Kati Thanda) is one of the world's largest salt lakes and Australia's largest inland lake, comprised of 400 million tonnes of salt.