Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1957Vol. XXVII, No. 7

of Rainfall

p. 134 · Read in the full issue

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Crazy Weather

Lae Lost a Yard of Rainfall

VILA, New Hebrides, had 265 daj on which rain fell in 1956, th wet days producing in all 102.4 inches —the highest annual tot? since 1950.

Wettest month was March, whic produced almost 22 inches in its 2 days.

Lae, New Guinea, on the othf hand, had a virtual drought la: year—36 inches below normal. Nom theless they got 122 inches, or aboi 10 inches per month, and althoug this was not quite so damp as th average 175 inches per annum, Lb still does not qualify as a dust-bo\ area.

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