Here the average annual rainfall is 12000 millimetres. If you do not like the wet stuff, head for Africa in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The annual rainfall averages less than 1 millimetre and they have recorded 14 consecutive years without rainfall. For those of you who still work in Imperial measurements, roughly speaking, one inch of rain falling over an area of one acre, has a weight of one ton. Freezing rain consists of supercooled water droplets which freeze on impact with the ground to form a glaze of ice.
Roads become impassable and the build up of ice can bring down trees and power lines.
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