Talk:Southern Alps

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Rainfall

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An annual rainfall total of 590 in (15,000 mm) sounds extraordinary, wetter even than the likes of Mawsynram or Tutunendo; has it been corroborated?

Meltingpot (talk) 14:08, 10 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

seeing as you asked, yes, as a prime minister once said, "New Zealand is an irredeemably pluvial country".^[1] The highest recorded annual rainfall is 18m, you could update the page if you want to accept Te Ara as a source: https://teara.govt.nz/en/map/18158/where-the-rain-falls Somej (talk) 09:48, 11 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

No, that link says that Cropp recorded 18,000 mm of rain in [I]a[/I] year, not that it does so consistently.

Mawsynram once recorded 26,000 mm of rain in a year, but it doesn't do so consistently (its annual average is more like 12,000 mm).

Meltingpot (talk) 09:15, 15 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

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↑ "Liquidation". New Zealand Geographic. Retrieved 11 September 2026.

[1] "Liquidation". New Zealand Geographic. Retrieved 11 September 2026.

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