The Rainy Season of 1932 in Southwestern Ecuador

RUE to the seven years' cycle recognized as obtaining in southwestern Ecuador, the rainfall of this region was abnormally heavy in I932, repeating the phenomena of 1925.1 The author was fortunately able to observe various incidents of meteorological interest which took place during the rainy season, January to May, at Ancon on the southern side of the Santa Elena Peninsula. A detailed record was kept, and this is on file at the American Geographical Society. Although it has been customary to refer to years of heavy precipitation in this part of the world as abnormal, one is now led to the view that their occurrence is quite in order as a natural climatic sequence.