These graphs show annual rainfall totals for the years 1895 to 2005 for Maine (above) and Arizona (below). The red lines show the average rainfall for each state—in other words, the amount of rainfall each state can generally expect to receive each year. You can see why people in these two states would have very different views of drought: Maine’s driest year (2001, with about 30 inches of rain) in the past 110 years was still wetter than Arizona’s wettest year (1905, with about 24 inches of rain)!