Our World

Annual European Precipitation

On my trip to England/Ireland, it didnt take me long to notice that it rained. A LOT. It seemed that every day it was at least drizzling lightly, if not pouring. One of the people we talked to in Ireland said that Spain was a popular weekend/spring break vacation (or in his words, holiday) area because it isnt nearly as rainy. Out of curiousity, I looked up a precipitation map of Europe. Sure enough, it showed high areas of precipitation for the area. To my surprise though, areas north of Italy have quite a bit of annual precipitation as well. A link to the map is listed below:

http://www.gbvienna.com/mapprecipitation.htm

Or if you want to see it in bright, neon, hard to read colors:

http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/GIS/img/eur_prcy.jpg

posted by Anonymous @ 4/30/2006 02:45:00 PM