Pat Shingleton for Oct. 11, 2009
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There’s a small fishing village in Newfoundland that is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the foggiest place in the world.
Trepassey, located on the Avalon Peninsula, averages 160 days of fog per year.
Newfoundland’s provincial capital, St. John, north of Trepassey, experiences 124 days of fog per year.
St. John is also the rainiest with 60 inches or five feet of rain each year.
Hold on, there are a few more distinctions for this town.
As noted in a previous article, it’s also the snowiest, with 1414.34 inches; the windiest, with a daily average of 15 mph; the cloudiest, with only 1,497 hours of sunshine; and having the greatest number of days of freezing rain per year at 38.
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