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IT has been a general practice over the past few years to assume that the annual rainfall amounts recorded at stations in East Africa follow a normal distribution law1,2; but this assumption has not been based on a detailed analysis of all the long-period data. The reason for this may be that an analysis of the station with the longest record (Padua, Italy, 225 years) has shown the distribution to be not significantly different from normal and so it was thought that this should hold true for other stations.
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GRIFFITHS, J. Annual Rainfall Distribution in East Africa. Nature 181, 1331 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811331a0
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