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With such anomalies it is understandable that even the ten-year averages 
would differ greatly from each other. In particular the 1910-1919 average 
Is pushed up hy the two extraordinarily rainy years 191^' and 1915* 
The attempts at explanation concern themselves chiefly wi 
annual amount overall, which does not seem to fit into the tropical rain 
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belt at all* Woeikoff ( 
) says on this point that the region where 
Howland is situated Is the region where one assumes that the dividing line 
between the two trade winds is narrowest, but according to actual observatio 
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tions by Hague/| the two trade winds must have no dividing line here and merge 
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completely into each other; They v/ould thus belong year round to the low 
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precipitation zone, particularly lacking mountains or other local cond ition 
tions that might cause rain* In fact, the very flatness Is credited by some 
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with the actual ability to discourage rain. According to Hague *s observation 
s, M a shower of rain approaching the island divided into two pants and pass 
ed by to ther north and to the south, the cloud being split by the heated 
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column of air that rises from the white coral sand 
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who stated that it usually rained at night on Howland, if 
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