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This is my first winter in Seattle, and I was nearly driven mad by this past month’s nearly 14 inches of rain. It led me to check the world record for a month, and appears we just missed it — by 352 inches.
Hell is wet, and it’s called Cherrapunji.
I know -- I did the research before I came. I think it rains less (in terms of inches) in Chicago and Cleveland, which were my two most recent ports of call. But 14" in a single one-month period is psychologically grueling.
But as far as I'm concerned, it's still lots better than waking up to 14" of snow and trudging out to a car covered in snow up to its antennae. As weather goes, Chicago's a shade more pleasant than Cherrapunji.
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Tom, Seattle sees less rain annually than Houston, New York City, Atlanta, Memphis, St. Louis, and most places in Hawaii. It's the constant gray/threat of rain/drizzle that's made the weather here infamous.