Which one of these schools has the most rain?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I hate rain. so it'll be one of my factors in choosing a school. what's the weather like at these schools.</p>

<p>NORTHEAST
Cornell U
MIT
Princeton U </p>

<p>SOUTHEAST
Duke U </p>

<p>CENTRAL
Northwestern U IL
U Illinois Urbana</p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>I've been at Duke for almost three weeks, and it hasn't rained one drop. It's an unusual dry season for NC, though. That said, the Piedmont of North Carolina seldom gets torrential downpours-usually rain consists of an occasional afternoon thunderstorm, usually quickly over. During the summer, though, you can expect brief afternoon showers pretty regularly. The weather's pretty nice year-round, but the general lack of a heavy rain can make the humidity really high.</p>

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<p>oh yea. i really dislike humidity. but it's only humid during the summer right?</p>

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<p>All of your options have rain. You have hurricane/monsoon on the Eastern side and monsoon/tornadic storms in the middlewest.....you hate rain look in AZ or NM or TX.</p>

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<p>Not necessarily. The mountains of NC get rain almost every day, but central NC doesn't really get that much rain. We certainly don't get monsoons. :) </p>

<p>Anyway, humidity's worst about late June to mid September. The other three seasons are pretty mild. </p>

<p>Many Duke dorms don't have AC, just so you know.</p>

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<p>thx, warblersrule86. that helps a lot</p>

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<p>You know, there's not as much rain in Boston as I think I expected. (Haha, a lot of snow though!)</p>

<p>One advantage of MIT is that basically all of the buildings on main campus are connected through hallways and underground tunnels. On rainy days, you definitely see more people in the tunnels than you see aboveground! :)</p>

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<p>lol since northwestern's near chicago that will have more rain than usual bc of the great lakes.</p>

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<p>You should be able to get precise precipitation data, by city, from a source like the National Weather Service.</p>

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<p>When I attended Cornell it used to rain there quite frequently. More frequently than in the NYC metro area that I came from.</p>

<p>I don't know what these other schools were experiencing during that same period, or what the weather is like there now.</p>

<p>You should be able to find hard data on this someplace, I'd think.</p>