Sputnik Weather
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IN Christmas week consumers were being urged to re strict their use of water— especially for washing cars, watering gardens with fixed hoses and sprinklers—and they were not consumers in Sydney in the middle of the current drought either ; but consumers in Suva which expects the annual rainfall to be over 100 inches.
The appeal to the public was caused by the long, dry period and delayed arrival of the Wet this year in Fiji. Due to begin anytime from Sep tember, it proved reluctant — as it did also in Papua-New Guinea, and other parts of the SW Pacific.
Port Moresby’s prolonged Dry has been accompanied by oppressive heat, which even old-timers found hard to bear.
Santa did manage to give most of Papua-New Guinea 'ain for Christmas Day.
A couple of seasons ago, when all the Wets were being iust too wet, atom-bombs were blamed. So far no one appears o be attributing the long Dry "his year to the Sputniks.