{"id":82458,"date":"2026-01-09T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82458\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T15:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T15:28:06","slug":"10-of-the-rainiest-and-driest-cities-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/82458\/","title":{"rendered":"10 of the rainiest \u2014 and driest \u2014 cities in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rainfall is one of those facts about a city that sounds trivial until it isn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Too much rain strains infrastructure, inflates insurance costs, and quietly reshapes housing demand. Too little precipitation forces trade-offs around water, growth, and who gets to stay. Across the U.S., the gap between the wettest and driest cities is vast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Using real estate firm Redfin\u2019s rankings of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/blog\/rainiest-cities-in-the-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cities with the most rainy days<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redfin.com\/blog\/driest-cities-in-the-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lowest annual rainfall totals<\/a>, these 10 locations show just how uneven the country\u2019s climate really is, depending on where you land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rainfall is one of those facts about a city that sounds trivial until it isn\u2019t.\u00a0 Too much rain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":{"0":"post-82458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}