This is one of the wettest localities in Vanua Levu, and probably, as in the case of that of Ndriti in the Seatura basin, the rainfall is not far under 300 inches in the year.
With its row of riverfront saloons Catlettsburg, between the Big Sandy and the Ohio Rivers, was then called the wettestspot on earth.
Gone is the old-time waterfront That rang with joy and mirth, And known throughout a dozen states As "the wettestspot on earth.
The wettest of these is close to the village, and is utilised for a flour-mill.
When he comes in he just fills hisself, then he lies down in the wettest place he can find, and goes to sleep.
This, it may probably be remembered, was one of the wettest autumns almost upon record; and in these marches we generally had the full benefit of the torrents which fell in this naturally wet country.
The present drainage on the seaward slopes of the Coast Range is entirely ineffective in reaching the sea, as was seen in 1911, the wettest season known on the coast in years and one of the wettest probably ever observed on this coast by man.
I first attempted to drain the wettest parts with brush drains, running them into the wet places merely, and succeeded in drying the land sufficiently to afford good crops of hay.
The district is one of the wettest of England--the mean quantity of rain, for the same time, having been 45.
The wettest part of the county is Dartmoor, which catches the moisture-laden clouds coming up from the Atlantic.
In the wettest years at Plymouth the Doctor measured only once 36 in.
Only a few of the trees--those in the wettest places--have the knobs on the ground near the base.
The Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) is a common tree, a native of the Gulf States, growing very abundantly in the wettestswamps of that region.
Diving-ducks avoid the marisma except only in the wettest winters.
The very heavy rainfall of the district, which is the wettest in England, has led to the utilization of Thirlmere as a reservoir for the water supply of Manchester, over 80 m.
The western or mountainous division is the wettest at all seasons, each orographic group forming a centre of heavy precipitation.
An admirable subject for naturalisation on almost any soil, thriving perfectly on the wettest and coldest, and therefore suited for many places where other perennials would make little progress.
Of course, it was the wettest day of the season, but that didn't matter.
At this time of the year it carries the coldest, wettest brand of rain known to suffering humanity, and can make it beat on the inside of an umbrella as readily as on the outside.
It is but 30 miles south of the port of Geraldton, the wettest place in Australia, as well as the centre of the chief sugar-producing district of the State of Queensland.
The total rainfall of the wettest locality in Victoria was 42.
Illustration: THE WET DAY] THE wettestdays in London Are quite a jolly spree: Our house is like an island, The wet street like a sea.
The wettest days in London Are quite a jolly spree; And sometimes, though not often, Our friends come in to tea.
It was fine hay land, he said, too, except in the wettest places; but it was true also, that any one could make hay anywhere.
Those who lived were saved by the little puddles of rain water that had fallen from the small rain clouds that had been forced over the great Sierra Nevada Mountains in one of the wettest winters ever known.
It must be further remembered that the wettest year is not necessarily the year of the heaviest rainfalls, and it is the heavy rainfalls only which affect the design of sewerage works.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wettest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
