FWIW, I asked a similar question last week about replacing my knobby tires with ones more designed for pavement. After a few recommendations, I went with a set of continental town and countries. I may have been using them a total of 6 days now, but last night I got caught riding in the rain. I cant say that they are the best tires to use in foul conditions like that, but it was magnitudes better than the tires that originally came on my bike.
They would probably not be good for anything other than riding on pavement though.