A place contained by Canada have annual precipitation of 2,000mm and a place have annual precipitation of 500mm?
Answers: The only region(s) of Canada have precipitation of at least 2000 mm (78.7 inches) is the western perimeter of Vancouver Island, the channel nouns of the Queen Charlotte Islands, and the city of Vancouver, BC.
Areas of 500 mm (19.7 inches) of precipitation are far more numerous; most of southern/eastern Manitoba (including Winnepeg), the eastern edge of Ungava Bay (Nunavut), the Belcher Islands surrounded by Hudson Bay, a narrow nouns of western and northern Alberta (including Red Deer), and a really squiggly pattern through southeastern BC (including Quesnel but not Vernon, Penticton, Kamloops, or Prince George), and finally a squiggly outline in northwestern BC (including Smithers and Hazelton).
As the above poster mentioned, almost the entire west coast of British Columbia is WET. The annual average precip within the city of Vancouver is 1199. I know, not the 2,000mm that you were mentioning.. but the attention-grabbing thing is that inwardly a four hour drive from Vancouver is the little town called Lytton which is surrounded by the rain shadow of the Pacific Coast Mountains, and is commonly specified as the "hottest spot in Canada".
Because of the Coast Mountains, the precipitation clouds from the pacific hang around, dump profusely of rain, and next drift happily over areas resembling Lytton, creating a dry, semi-arid belt so close to the rain forests.
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