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.

This paper aims to know the characteristics of occurrence of the anomaly level and variability of the monthly precipitation in Kyeongnam, Korea. For this study, it was investigated the distribution of the annual and monthly mean precipitation, the precipitation variability and its annual change, and the characteristics of occurrence of the anomaly level in Kyeongnam area. The results were summarized as follows ; 1) The mean of annual total precipitation averaged over Kyeongnam area is 1433.3mm. The spatial distribution n of the annual total precipitation shows that in Kyeongnam area, the high rainfall area locates in the southwest area and south coast and the low rainfall area in an inland area 2) Monthly mean precipitation in Kyeongnam area was the highest in July(266.4㎜) followed by August(338.0㎜), June(210.2㎜) in descending order. In summer season, rainfall was concentrated and accounted for 49.9 percent of the annual total precipitation. Because convergence of the warm and humid southwest current which was influenced by Changma and typhoon took place well in this area. 3) The patterns of annual change of precipitaion variability can be divided into two types; One is a coast type and the other an inland type. The variability of precipitation generally appears low in spring and summer season and high in autumn and winter season. This is in accord with the large and small of precipitation. 4) The high frequency of anomaly level was N( Normal)-level and the next was LN( Low Normal)-level and ES(Extremely Subnormal)-level was not appeared in all stations. The occurrence frequency of N level was high in high rainfall area and distinguished in spring and summer season but the low rainfall area was not.