WHOLE VOL. NOTES. SOUTH PACIFIC. CARIBBEAN AREA 6^, 



TAHITI 

 PAPEETE 



Authority. 



Service Meteorologique des Etablissements frangais de I'Oceanie, 

 Papeete. 



Note. 



"The series of measurements made at Papeete (Observatoire du 

 Faiere) from 1935 to 1940 is homogeneous. The instruments 

 were not subject to any change. The observatory is situated 

 on a small hill overlooking the town at a height of 92 m. 

 Most of the instruments have been placed in a clearing; at 

 a distance there are trees and houses. We possess a certain 

 number of data before 1935, but we have not up to the 

 present determined with exactitude the different correc- 

 tions." — ^J. L. GiovANNELLi, Ingenicur Meteorologiste, Chef 

 de Service Meteorologique des E. F. O. 



ADDITIONAL DATA 



CARIBBEAN AREA, PRECIPITATION 



Authority. 



United Fruit Company, H. Rowe, Vice President, Boston, Mass. 

 Data. 



"Rainfall data are taken from the banana-producing areas only 

 in each of these countries. Of course for Cuba it is from the 

 sugar-producing area. 



"The data are not records of an individual station in each country. 

 If they were, we could give you the latitude and longitude of 

 such stations. However, it is the average of a good many 

 stations scattered throughout the entire producing area. The 

 number, as well as the location, of these stations varies from 

 year to year." — H. Rowe. 



