Rainy Manchester

Posted February 15th, 2008 by Weather Toolbar
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Manchester, England, has the reputation of being one of the rainiest places in a rainy country. This is an injustice: its average annual rainfall of 32.3 ins (819mm) is only a shade more than Venice, with 30.3 ins (770mm) and less than Rome, with 36.0ins (915mm)

Manchester will never lose its rainy reputation judging from this anonymous poem from 1821:

I arrived in a show'r, in the wet now set off,
Eight days in the place I remain'd;
Seven days seven nights and a quarter, I vow,
By Jove! It incessantly rain'd,
What then? not a day not an hour was I dull:
The Lancashire Lads play'd their parts:
I found every friend of politeness brim full,
And myself in the midst of the Arts.
May Manchester flourish! and if once again
By chance I should ere be brought hither,
I hope that from weeping the clouds may refrain,
And grant me a peek at fine weather.

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