Using the result of pilot-balloon observations, we intended to find the relation between the rainfall and the discontinuous surface of the upper air current and obtained the result that in winter the rainfall was frequently observed during the period of 24 hours after the observation of discontinuous surface, but in summar the relation was not so decisive.
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