Same except for Jordan. I tried Israel and Lebanon and then gave up on that region... I also didn't bother to try Djibouti after Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia failed.
egypt is not "drier" than those countries, they it has the Nile. But practiclly all of the water from the nile comes from Ethiopia Sudan Uganda area. Actual Egypt gets next to no actual rain.
But I lived in both Egypt and the Persian Gulf region, and I can tell you that it rains much more frequently and heavily in the Nile Delta than anywhere in the eastern half of the Arabian Peninsula. I expected Qatar, UAE, and Kuwait to have less precipitation. I think it's the average rainfall over the total area the counts, and Egypt has a huge desert region, but even gets less than half the rainfall that Libya gets? Surprising for me.
Yeah, Egypt is somewhat surprising for the top spot. Expected it to be on this list, but wasn't expecting it to be the top spot. Even so, I've read in recent articles that for all intents and purposes, the Nile is the only water source for the vast majority of Egypt's 100 million people... which is why the dam being filled up in Ethiopia is a major concern for them.
Yup, tell me about it. The Ethiopian dam is hugely controversial, to say the least, and something of great concern to us Egyptians everywhere. Of course, we all blame the ridiculously incompetent dealing with the issue of our dearly beloved Presi... erhh... I mean minister of foreign affairs. All hail our lord and savior general Susu :P
Please accept "Igypt" for "Egypt" and "Lybya" for Libya" and "Saudi Arebia" for "Saudi Arabia" and "Kwatar" for "Qatar" etc. many of these places are so hard to spell!!!11
I always find quizzes about average rainfall to be ambiguous - is it average as in, averaging out across years? or, average as in that but also average across the whole surface area?
Like, the coast of Egypt along the Mediterranean gets way more than 24cm of rain annually, but then there's a massive desert that's way way bigger than the coast which is also in the country. So does that bring the 'average' way down or is it just adding a negligible amount to the existing number?
Maybe it's just me, but it always bugs me that that isn't established in the preamble, so the answer only becomes apparent after you've started guessing.
Yes, it's averaged across both years and the whole area of the country. Like you point out, the Mediterranean coast of Egypt gets far more rain than the country average which, for any given year is pulled way down by the fact that most of Egypt is a desert and gets basically no rain. Even so, a city like Alexandria would still probably be drier than most of the countries on the list for any given year, so it's not as if the data is skewed enormously by the averages. It's quite inaccurate to say that Egypt as a whole receives only an inch of precipitation per year, but it is still by and large quite a dry country.
Interesting that countries that contain some of the world's most arid areas like Chile and Peru don't make the list, because they also contain areas of extremely high precipitation. Also Australia, despite being the world's most arid inhabited continent and the country with the most desert doesn't make it, probably because Australian desert is pretty mild by world standards - Birdsville, Queensland gets 167mm a year, as opposed to 6mm for Lima, Peru.
Also, is it just me or is cm a weird way to measure precipitation? Isn't mm the standard?
Sudan #22, Chad #30, Eritrea #33. Also, while I hope you had a lovely time in those countries, it seems unreasonable to assume your experiences there would necessarily correlate to averaged precipitation over the entire area for 30 years.
Like, the coast of Egypt along the Mediterranean gets way more than 24cm of rain annually, but then there's a massive desert that's way way bigger than the coast which is also in the country. So does that bring the 'average' way down or is it just adding a negligible amount to the existing number?
Maybe it's just me, but it always bugs me that that isn't established in the preamble, so the answer only becomes apparent after you've started guessing.
Also, is it just me or is cm a weird way to measure precipitation? Isn't mm the standard?