Sputnik W eather in Port Moresby, Too

Port Moresby, Too

The crazy 1958 weather pattern in New Caledonia and Fiji was followed by Port Moresby, too.

Port Moresby got an un seasonal l3h inches in Sep tember, in what seemed to be an early beginning of the wet.

There followed three months of very dry weather and if it had not been for 21 inches right at the end of December, 1958 would have finished an almost record dry year. As it was, it was just a couple of inches under the average 47.55 inches for Jack son’s airstrip. At the other end of Port Moresby, at Government House, the rainfall is an aver age nine inches lower than that.

Port Moresby is in the rain shadow of the Owen Stanley Mountains and is at the bottom of the rainfall list of P-NG, which is generally bountifully endowed.