[?]ry Side Wetter
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Heather
[?]ry Side Wetter Than the Wet
IE cattle industry of New Cale donia derived considerable benefit from the exceptional iber of westerly winds experl ?d in New Caledonia during 1955. s a result of these winds, more ifall was recorded on the west >t than on the east coast, a re al of normal experience. :om April to November it is nal for the southeast irade winds hich are in reality predomin y easterly—to divide such island ses as Samoa, Fiji and New sdonia into a wet half and a dry , most of the precipitation rring on the windward (easterly) of the central mountain ranges, om December to March this text : pattern is modified by the 1 nature of the trade winds and movements of tropical storms may develop over this period, oximity to the great land mass ustralia is also a potent influ at times and the manner in h the length of New Caledonia orientated northwest-southeast s towards a less clearly defined dry boundary than is the case iji.