These are the ten cities in the United States with the highest annual average rain totals. Despite the high rain totals many of the cities on this list are very popular tourist destinations and one place is famous as the home of vampires in the Twilight series. Almost all of these wettest weather cities have one thing in common. They are almost all located along of near a coast and ocean and some of the best beaches in the United States are near these cities.

Weather news in 1938 was non-existent, there was no communication as there is today. When the Long Island Express hit New York in 1938, it was a Category 3 hurricane that derailed trains, knocked down centuries old buildings and homes, doing over 4.75 billion dollars worth of damage in today's US dollars. It was the height of the Great Depression and people were out of work just like they are in 2010. Hurricane Earl, looming toward New England is being compared in strength and path to the Great Hurricane of 1938, America's worst natural disaster ever.

Here is a quote on winter by Will Rogers:

"I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime."

You can find many more quotes about winter on this page.