AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING V

1. According to the National Geographic News Service, the driest spot on earth is the Atacama Desert in Chile, where the rainfall is barely measurable, At Calama, a city in the desert, no rain has ever been recorded.

2. The driest city in the United States is Las Vegas, Nevada - averaging only 4.2inches per year.

3.. The wettest place on earth is Mawsynram, a village in north eastern India, with an average rainfall of a 467.4 inches per year. The claim is in dispute with two villages in Colombia, South America. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Mawsynram received 1,000 inches of rainfall in 1985.

4. The wettest place in the United States, and a close second to the wettest place on earth, is Mt. Waialeale on Kauai, Hawaii, which gets 460 inches of rain per year.