Based on themonthly p recip itation data during 1951 - 2000 from 19 meteorological stations in Guizhou p rovince, the regional
characteristics of p recip itation anomalies in summer are studied by usingmethods of the fuzzy assembling analysis, emp irical orthogonal
function ( EOF) analysis and wavelet analysis on normalized anomaly of 19 stations’monthly averaged rainfall. The results show that
five obvious rainfall periods occurred in the recent 50 years, includingwet in the early 1950 s, dry from the middle of the 1950 s to the
early 1960 s, wet from the middle of 1960 s to the end of 1960 s, dry in the 1970 s and 1980 s, wet after the 1990 s, at the same time ,
the total rainfall p resented increasing trend. The coincident variability occurred in summer rainfall of Guizhou, but some regional differ2
ence also existed. The variations of p recip itation anomalies in summer can be divided into five spatial patterns, namely dry (wet) in
the whole p rovince, dry (wet) in the east and wet ( dry) in the west, dry (wet) in the south and wet ( dry) in the north, dry (wet )
in the middle and east part butwet ( dry) in the southwest, dry (wet) in the southwest and wet ( dry) in other areas. It p resented ob2
viousmultip le time scales of 10 - 12 years, 4 - 5 years and 2 - 3 years variations for different rainfall patterns.