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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1949Vol. XIX, No. 11

Sunny Suva!

p. 9 · Read in the full issue

Sy T tr a K , „ SUVA, June 1.

UVA broke all records in May and ended the month with 57.59 inches of rain—the wettest May ever (see also page 25, this issue).

The previous record for the month was registered in 1936, when 25.63 in fell Suva’s normal yearly average of 120.86 in. has already been exceeded this year by 12.56 in. There have been 133.42 in. of ram m the past five months. During the night of May 28 and the morning of May 29, a total fall of 14.39 in. was recorded in Suva.