Mount Waialeale, Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands is the wettest place on Earth. “Waialeale ” means “overflowing water “in Hawaiian. It’s altitude of more than 5000 feet is one reason why the place gets so much rain. Rain clouds don’t go over Mount Waialeale thus causing rains to fall as the clouds go around the mountain’s side. It rains almost everyday at Mount Waialeale, with only about fifty clear days a year.

Th Io Valley on Maui also is extremely wet. It’s almost continuously shrouded in drizzly fog.