{"id":18098,"date":"2015-09-02T11:31:24","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T10:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18098"},"modified":"2015-09-02T11:31:24","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T10:31:24","slug":"what-is-the-wettest-place-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18098","title":{"rendered":"What is the wettest place on earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, Britain has had a miserable summer with one rainy day after another and often the deluges have been severe. But, of course, this is nothing compared to many parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>So where is the wettest place on earth? According to the BBC, it is\u00a0the cluster of hamlets known as Mawsynram in India. We are told:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Moisture swept from the Bay of Bengal, condenses over this 1,491m plateau, in the Khasi Hills that overlook the plains of Bangladesh.\u00a0The result is an astonishing average annual rainfall of 11,871 mm (467.35\u201d). Even the world\u2019s biggest statue, Rio de Janeiro\u2019s 30m tall Christ the Redeemer, would be up to his knees in that volume of water.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">More information <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/earth\/story\/20150827-the-wettest-place-on-earth\">here<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks, Britain has had a miserable summer with one rainy day after another and often the deluges have been severe. But, of course, this is nothing compared to many parts of the world. So where is the wettest place on earth? According to the BBC, it is\u00a0the cluster of hamlets known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18101,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098\/revisions\/18101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}