The characteristics of the anomaly level, variability and distribution of monthly mean precipitation have been investigated at 4 different weather stations on Cheju Island, Korea. The results of this study are as follows : 1) The SE area of Cheju Island turns out to be the heavy rain area from February to July than the NW area of the island. The heavy rain area migrates from the SE area to the NE area during the period from August to January. 2) The rainy season, in which monthly mean precipitation is more than 180mm, appears in Cheju City and Sungsan from June to August, in Seoguipo from April to August, and in Daejung from June to July. On the other hand, the dry season, in which monthly mean precipitation is less than 100㎜, appears in Cheju City from October to May, in Sungsan from December to February in Seoguipo from October to February, and in Daejung from October to March. 3) The variability of precipitation on Cheju Island appears high during the 'Changma' spell and it is also high in autumn, particularly in October, and appears low in March and April. 4) The frequency of the anomaly level shows maximum not only on the normal level but the lower normal level and the upper normal level in monthly precipitation. The annual frequency distribution of each anomaly level shows maximum on the normal level, and the frequency of the lower normal level is a lot higher than the lower normal level. 5) The precipitation of the summer season acts as an important variable in deciding between the dry year and the moisture year. In particular, this applies to the large precipition of June in the moisture year and the small precipitation of July and August in the dry year.

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