Where is the most rainy place on earth?
In 1850, Joseph Dalton Hooker, a Royal Navy doctor turned naturalist, who spent the monsoon months at Cherrapunji, recorded variations in measured rain. “He was puzzled by the curiously localised patterns of rain; move your gauge a few hundred yards and it registered only half as much as before”, writes Alexander Frater in his book, ‘Chasing the Monsoon’. This shows that recording the rainfall at the most humids places on earth has always been a difficult task for weathermen.
