April Showers 

In many states April means Spring. Flowers appear. Birds build nests. It rains a lot. The rain helps plants to grow. Let’s look at our rainiest states. Let’s look at the rainiest place in the world. 

This is a rain gauge. It measures how much rain falls. Louisiana is a rainy state. New Orleans, Louisiana, gets about 62 inches of rain a year. Hawaii is our wettest state. Some places there get 300 inches of rain a year.  

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Meghalaya in India has the most rain in the world! It rains 467 inches a year! This is a “living bridge”. Local villages made it. They knit together roots to grow into a bridge. They make a strong bridge.

What Do You Think? Is it rainy where you live? Do you enjoy the rain? 

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