Score
Dry Climate
Lower annual precipitation and snowfall score higher as a first-pass dry climate proxy.
Higher values rank better for this score.
How It's Calculated
The latest published score is normalized to a 0-100 scale. The method below explains what the score rewards, with technical source metadata available for audit.
How the ranking is built
Dry Climate rewards places with lower annual precipitation and snowfall.
- 1
Moisture burden is 82% annual precipitation and 18% annual snowfall.
- 2
The burden is confidence-shrunk when station evidence is weaker.
- 3
The score is inverse percentile-rank normalized over the full scored distribution, so lower moisture burden scores higher.
Technical details
Read from the current master score table for this criterion.
The top 10 below ignore your blended relocation weights and sort only by Dry Climate.
What This Score Means
Dry Climate rewards places with lower annual precipitation and snowfall.
Statistics Feeding This Score
- Annual precipitationSource: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, annual/seasonal
Normal annual precipitation in inches.
- Annual snowfallSource: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, annual/seasonal
Normal annual snowfall in inches.
- Moisture burdenSource: Derived from NOAA annual/seasonal normals
Weighted log blend of precipitation and snowfall.
Source Data
Known Limits
- Station normals are proxies for places; they are not gridded averages for exact municipal boundaries.
- Nearby stations are weighted by distance and elevation fit, then lower-confidence estimates are shrunk toward the all-place mean.
- Microclimates, shade, wind, wildfire smoke, and local siting effects can differ from the station-based estimate.
- Dry Climate is a precipitation and snowfall proxy; Low Humidity is the relative-humidity/dampness score.
Top 10 Locations
Ranked by Dry Climate.