Show record the world s record for a 24 hour rainfall hitherto held by queensland was equalled equal led at paapaa oa on the wind coast of the island of hawaii on christmas day when the rain guage showed a fall of forty inches paapaa loa Is a little headland its formation Is such that it always gets the brunt of the rains brought to that coast by the northeast trade winds at liana on the eastern and exposed end of maul where twenty one inches of rain fell in twenty tour hours fourteen lachs tell in four hours making it Is believed a world s reco d for a our hour period |