INFOGRAPHIC: Which US Cities are Historically Most Prone to Rain on July Fourth?

By Michael Kuhne, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer

June 30,2014; 9:17PM,EDT

 

 

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How prone is your area to rain on Independence Day?
Looking at the past 15 years of records for 15 of America's major cities, Pittsburgh and Atlanta, top the list for the rainiest July 4 holidays, with seven rainy holidays in the last 15 years.
On the other hand, Los Angeles and San Francisco have not had a single rainy Fourth of July between 1999 and 2013.
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The heaviest rainfall recorded among the cities listed occurred in Washington, D.C., in 2001. While Dallas has only ever had one measurable rainfall on July 4 in the past 15 years, but was hit with 1.31 inches of rain in 2006, making it the third heaviest on record.

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 Kevin H Shū · Carnegie Mellon University

The figures cited for DC are flat out WRONG. They are for Dulles which should never be used to assess ANYTHING (except barometric pressure) of DC climatology. Also the figures for NYC don't match up with the daily almanacs of ANY of the three main stations there. And only 0.07" for Boston? Did you think it was on the West Coast? Pathetic...

Also anyone with any training in statistics knows that 15 years is far too much noise, so looking at the full POR... the format is %years (thru 2013) with 0.01" or more of rain on 4 July/length of POR for 4 Jul/record rain (yr), record high (yr), normal high:

Downtown LA: 1% (only 1898), 137, 0.07" (1898), 103F (1907), 82F.
Downtown SF: 2%, 164 (9 years missing), 0.06" (1925), 95F (1931), 67F.
PHX: 7%, 118, 0.22" (1898), 118F (1989), 107F.
DFW: 18%, 115, 1.31" (2006), 105F (1996), 94F.
DAL:... See More

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Ebers Ortega · Rutgers

how is FL not on this list?

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  CryxtalBay

  I'm looking at the 'normal high's' for these and thinking 'wow...must be nice'... Lol. Pretty certain every single year we're about 20 degrees higher than that...

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  Leonard Bast

  Florida is not on the list because none of the 15 cities surveyed is in Florida. The survey was not of all cities in all states.

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  Ebers Ortega · Rutgers

  Leonard Bast well im pretty certain MIami and any other city in FL would have all these cities beat in probability and amount of rainfall for
  july 4.

  Reply · Like · 4 hours ago