Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1918 — Hawaiian Island Has More Than 43 Feet of Rainfall [ARTICLE]

Hawaiian Island Has More Than 43 Feet of Rainfall

The reputation 'of being the rainiest place in the world has long been ■ enjoyed by the hill station Cherrapunji, on the slope of the Himllaya, in Assam. The latest official value, based on a 40-year ’record at the Cherrapunji station, is 426 Inches per annum. Blanford, the well-known authority on Indian meteorology, thought, that the mean in some places at Cherrapunji exceeded 500 Inches, but nowhere amounted to 600 inches. So far as actual records go the rainfall on the Indian station is surpassed by that recently reported by D. H. Campbell of Stanford university, at Walaleale, in the island of Kauai, Hawaii. During the years 1912-16, inclusive, the Hawaiian station, which is 5.075 feet above sea level, recorded the astonishing mean annual rainfall of 518 Inches, or more than 43 feet.