JAKARTA – Records are made to be broken and marker post Mile 50, on a precipitous mining road in Papua`s mist-blanketed Central Highlands, is about to challenge two long-reigning Indian champions for the title of the world`s wettest place. Over the past five years, the rain gauge maintained by the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) and mining company Freeport Indonesia at Mile 50, has recorded an average of 12,143 millimeters (mm) of rain. That`s 478.071 inches, or 39 feet 10 inches and change, enough to oust Cherrapungi, a town in the remote East Khasi Hills of northeast India, from the current top spot, if the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) endorses the data....
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