No.5, Mount Washington in New Hampshire where it is windy.
The highest wind speed ever recorded at the summit
was 235 miles per hour. That happened back in 1934.
No.4 is the Atacama Desert in Chile.
This place is known as the driest place on earth,
getting 1 millimeter of rain per year,
and some spots haven’t seen a drop of rain in 500 years.
Number three is masarame, india,
which is known as the wettest place on earth.
During the monsoon season
they can get thirty feet of rain in a single month.
That’s about four shaquille o’neal’s worth of rain.
No.2 is Lake Maracaibo in South America.
This place is known as the Lightning Capital of the world,
and for good reason. During the wet season,
this area averages 28 lightning bolts per minute.
And number one is Hakodate,
Japan, where they are known for their winter monsoon,
where they see a ton of snow
between the months of December and February.
In fact, it’s not unheard of to go a week or two at a time
where they see 8 to 16 inches of snow per day.