Precipitation Changeability

How often does precipitation change from one day to the next?

Your location, Alpena, Michigan, USA, ranks #4 out of 1739 locations for precipitation changeability.

Most Changeable

The 25 locations where precipitation changed the most from one day to the next over the last 12 months. Change % is how often the weather switched between a precipitation day and a dry day. Precip→Dry is how often a precipitation day was followed by a dry day, and Dry→Precip is the reverse.

Rank	Location	Change %	Precip→Dry	Dry→Precip
1	Tabatinga, Amazonas, Brazil	47.4%	44.7%	51.3%
2	Troy, New York, USA	46.8%	53.4%	39.6%
3	Alpena, Michigan, USA	45.9%	51.6%	41.9%
4	Irkutsk, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia	45.9%	45.9%	45.8%
5	Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz, Argentina	44.0%	48.1%	40.5%
6	Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, USA	43.7%	54.0%	36.7%
7	Hartford, Connecticut, USA	43.5%	55.7%	35.6%
8	Libreville, Estuaire, Gabon	43.4%	48.0%	38.1%
9	Cadillac, Michigan, USA	43.3%	50.0%	38.4%
10	Parma, Ohio, USA	43.2%	53.2%	36.0%
11	Erie, Pennsylvania, USA	43.1%	43.6%	42.6%
12	Saint John's, Saint John Parish, Antigua and Barbuda	43.1%	38.9%	48.4%
13	Kampung Baru Subang, Selangor, Malaysia	42.9%	47.3%	37.0%
14	Youngstown, Ohio, USA	42.9%	46.6%	39.9%
15	Bridgeport, West Virginia, USA	42.7%	45.2%	40.5%
16	Quincy, Massachusetts, USA	42.7%	60.0%	33.3%
17	Olean, New York, USA	42.6%	45.8%	39.9%
18	Welland, Ontario, Canada	42.4%	44.3%	40.8%
19	Keene, New Hampshire, USA	42.4%	57.3%	33.3%
20	Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA	42.4%	65.9%	31.3%
21	George, Western Cape, South Africa	42.2%	51.6%	35.2%
22	Buffalo, New York, USA	42.1%	45.8%	39.2%
23	Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk, Russia	42.0%	41.9%	42.1%
24	Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan	41.9%	44.8%	39.5%
25	Rochester, New York, USA	41.9%	44.9%	39.5%

Least Changeable

The 25 locations where precipitation changed the least from one day to the next over the last 12 months. These are places where the weather tends to stay the same — dry days stay dry and rainy days stay rainy.

Rank	Location	Change %	Precip→Dry	Dry→Precip
1715	Huntington Beach, California, USA	8.0%	36.4%	4.6%
1716	Oxnard, California, USA	8.0%	39.3%	4.6%
1717	Glendale, California, USA	7.8%	41.9%	4.0%
1718	Indio, California, USA	7.6%	54.5%	3.9%
1719	Santa Ana, California, USA	7.6%	54.5%	3.9%
1720	Palmdale, California, USA	7.5%	47.8%	4.2%
1721	Irvine, California, USA	7.4%	41.7%	4.4%
1722	Long Beach, California, USA	7.3%	40.0%	4.4%
1723	Los Angeles, California, USA	7.3%	35.5%	4.0%
1724	Jahrom, Fars, Iran	7.0%	50.0%	4.0%
1725	Garden Grove, California, USA	6.9%	33.3%	4.0%
1726	Lake Havasu City, Arizona, USA	6.9%	66.7%	3.4%
1727	Norwalk, Connecticut, USA	6.6%	93.3%	1.8%
1728	Yazd, Yazd Province, Iran	6.6%	69.2%	3.4%
1729	Blythe, California, USA	6.5%	75.0%	2.3%
1730	Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan, Iran	6.0%	62.5%	2.6%
1731	Chincha Alta, Ica, Peru	5.9%	100.0%	2.5%
1732	Santa Clarita, California, USA	5.9%	33.3%	3.2%
1733	Lancaster, California, USA	5.6%	42.9%	2.8%
1734	Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran	5.4%	58.3%	3.0%
1735	Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates	5.1%	57.1%	2.3%
1736	Fujairah, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates	5.0%	88.9%	2.2%
1737	Kerman, Kerman, Iran	4.3%	46.2%	2.3%
1738	Torrance, California, USA	4.3%	77.8%	1.9%
1739	Najran, Najran Region, Saudi Arabia	3.4%	66.7%	1.4%