Wet Season Lingers On In
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Suva
From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, May 12
rpiME was when the hurricane season, A the hot season and the “rainy” sea son (if there is any particularly rainy season in the wet areas of Fiji) ended neatly and simultaneously about the end of March. In recent years, however, Fiji’s hot season has lasted right through April and has spilled into May.
This year April in Suva was hotter than normal, rather drier than normal and, to the inhabitants, much more humid and suffocating than normal, especially at night.
Rainfall totalled 10.43 in. (normal aver age 12.90 in.). And of this 4.15 in. fell in a heap on April 10. At one stage on that day, rain was falling at the rate of 3.11 in. an hour.
It was quite a shower, even for Suva.