Topic summary
Mount Waialeale
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Mount Waiʻaleʻale.
Climate and rainfall statistics
The summit of Waiʻaleʻale features a tropical rainforest climate (KöppenAf), with substantial rainfall throughout the course of the year. (Bodin 1978: 272) quotes 460.0 inches (11,684 mm) per year figure as being the 1912–45 average, an average that quite possibly will have changed since then, while The National Climatic Data Center quotes this figure as a 30-year average. The Weather Network and The Guinness Book of Weather Records quotes 451.0 inches (11,455 mm) rain per year, while Meteorology Today quotes 460 inches (11,680 mm) as the average annual rainfall at Mount Waialeale and De Wereld van het Weer claims 510 inches (13,000 mm) falls here. Similarly, The Weather Network and the Guinness Book of Weather Records quote 335 days with rain here, while Weird Weather suggests that rain falls on 360 days per year.