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Low Precipitation

Scale55-100

Higher values are better.

About This Ranking

Goal

Highlight places with the least normal annual precipitation, using a fixed low-precipitation scale distinct from humidity, mugginess, and snowfall depth.

Sources

Data behind the rating

3 sources
Data
NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 annual precipitation normals matched from a representative named-community point using nearby-station distance and elevation fit.
What it tells us
Provides typical annual heat, cold, precipitation, and snowfall conditions from nearby weather stations, not a block-level microclimate or future climate projection.

USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)

Current dedicated Target Elevation fact run
Data
Official Populated Place coordinates and Census place codes used to select a community-core point instead of a potentially unrepresentative boundary centroid.
What it tells us
Identifies the named settlement point sampled for elevation; unmatched places and a documented reviewed geography exception retain their Census internal point explicitly.

USGS 3D Elevation Program (3DEP)

Current dedicated Target Elevation fact run
Data
Bilinear terrain-elevation sample at the representative community coordinate selected for each place, with a small nearby-sample fallback for exact no-data cells.
What it tells us
Provides the representative place elevation used to measure distance from the selected target; it does not describe the full elevation range within the place.

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