sean99
pfm Member
I lived there for 10 years and my lasting impression is of a general damp, grey chilliness most of the time. It might have been more important to me as a non-driver.
Average rainfall is 810 mm campared to Leeds and Birmingham 680 mm. That's a good 20%. Bristol is similar,806 mm, but Glasgow is a lot wetter 1276 mm
https://weather-and-climate.com/average-monthly-precipitation-Rainfall,Manchester,United-Kingdom
There's also a huge difference between 1000mm of heavy drizzle, occurring on 250+ days of the year, vs 40 storms that each dump 25+mm.
Boston, MA has annual rainfall of > 1000mm, but it has never felt particularly wet to me I think largely because relatively few storms account for a good part of the total.