02-01-2013, 12:54 AM
Delays in drilling operations might also be due to the excessive rainfall seen in PNG. This article talks about the disaster in the Highlands in western PNG
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=73572
This link talks about the disaster in Oro Province in eastern PNG
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=73383
Here's a link to average rainfall stats:
http://www.new-guinea-tribal-art.com/wp/...infall.jpg.
It doesn't appear from this map the Gulf Province would typically be spared the weather hitting other parts of the island.
As a slightly off topic aside, there've been two Cat 4 tropical cyclones in that part of the Pacific so far this year. I heard a climate researcher yesterday tie those into the extraordinary weather we've seen this past week in the US through a phenomena called "rapid stratospheric warming" which disrupts normal polar atmospheric flow patterns. This in turn puts a big kink in the jetstream.
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=73572
This link talks about the disaster in Oro Province in eastern PNG
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=73383
Here's a link to average rainfall stats:
http://www.new-guinea-tribal-art.com/wp/...infall.jpg.
It doesn't appear from this map the Gulf Province would typically be spared the weather hitting other parts of the island.
As a slightly off topic aside, there've been two Cat 4 tropical cyclones in that part of the Pacific so far this year. I heard a climate researcher yesterday tie those into the extraordinary weather we've seen this past week in the US through a phenomena called "rapid stratospheric warming" which disrupts normal polar atmospheric flow patterns. This in turn puts a big kink in the jetstream.