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Originally Posted by polak

Victoria gets more then twice the average total percipitation than Calgary.

Victoria annual average percipitation (mm): 883
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/statistics/cl1018620

Calgary annual average percipitation (mm): 412
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/sta...31093/caab0049

and Vancouver blows both away with 1588 mm.
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/sta...08446/cabc0308

Also, Calgary experiences a lot of "flash" rainstorms where it will rain more in an hour then it will all day for Victoria and then it'll clear up and be a perfect day. This is why we can have a lot of rain and snow but still be the sunniest city in Canada.

There's only a handful of days (usually a couple weeks in june) where it's miserable rain and overcast all day.

Those Victoria numbers are based off the airport which isn't really near the city. The actual city gets about 600mm of precipitition and 2200 hours of sunshine. Their summers also blow Calgary's out of the water.