Mount Bartle Frere
Climate
### Climate

Although no rain gauge exists on the mountain, data at nearby [Mount Bellenden Ker](/wiki/Mount_Bellenden_Ker "Mount Bellenden Ker") suggest an annual average rainfall of around , and an estimated potential maximum as high as , both of which would make the mountain one of the wettest places in the world. Even in what constitutes the "dry" in most of tropical Australia, rainfall on the summit is very heavy at around  in May and  in August, whilst in the wettest month of March estimated averages are as high as  and maxima around . Calculations based on available lowland data (from [Innisfail](/wiki/Innisfail%2C_Queensland "Innisfail, Queensland"), [Cairns](/wiki/Cairns%2C_Queensland "Cairns, Queensland") and [Port Douglas](/wiki/Port_Douglas%2C_Queensland "Port Douglas, Queensland")) would suggest *daily* rainfalls could have been potentially as high as  during a [cyclone](/wiki/Tropical_cyclone "Tropical cyclone") in 1911 – which if accurate would be the highest daily rainfall in the world.


How much rain falls on the summit in May?