About Rainfall
p. 45 · Read in the full issue
FOR many years it has been officially stated that Cherra punji, in Upper Assam, with an average rainfall of about 500 in., is the wettest place in the world.
Now there is another claimant for the record.
To quote from a US scientific journal: “The world’s rainest spot
has now been definitely discovered.
It is Mt. Waialeale, on Kauai Island, in the Hawaii group. Torrential rains, with thunder and lightning to boot, soak the countryside all year round, spraying a total of 720 to 960 inches of precipitation per year on the flanks of the 5,000 ft high mountain.”
These figures should interest folk from Tully, NQ, where it once rained over 300 inches; and New Guineaites who think Lindenhafen is a very
wet place.-
Shc.
H Mr, D. F. McCaig, Superinten dent of Prisons, Fiji, left Suva for the United Kingdom with Mrs, McCaig on furlough in March.