I sometimes like to look at the climate data on Wikipedia for various cities around the world. One of the interesting things I've discovered is how much more rain Atlanta gets than the stereotypically rainy cities of Britain and Ireland.
Atlanta averages 49.71 inches of rain per year. By comparison, London, England averages 23.68 inches per year. Dublin, Ireland averages 29.84 inches per year. And Glasgow, Scotland, the city sometimes called the rainiest in the U.K., gets 49.01 inches per year, just shy of Atlanta's average.
Of course, Atlanta also gets a lot more sunshine, so the city tends to dry out faster than the cities of northwest Europe. Atlanta gets 2738.3 hours of sunshine per year. By comparison, London gets 1632.6, Dublin gets 1447.3, and Glasgow gets 1265.
Fun fact: Atlanta isn't even the rainiest part of Georgia. That award goes to Rabun County, an actual rain forest. It averages over 70 inches of rain per year.
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