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Show RAIN PRECIPITATION ABOVE NORMAL IN UTAH COUNTY Accumulated precipitation for northern Utah on February 1, 1941, ranged from approximately 85 per cent below normal in the northmost part of Box Elder county coun-ty to 2 5 per cent above normal in the central farming areas of Cache, Weber, Davis, Salt Lake, and parts of Utah counties. The figures are contained in a report complied at the office of State Engineer T. H. Humpherys from reports of 30 U. S. weather bureau Htatlons, 16 cooperative snow courses, and of 10 water commissioner reports from various sections of the state. The Bear and Weber river watersheds, wa-tersheds, to date, are the most deficient de-ficient of the entire state, however, how-ever, there is 40 per cent of the total precipitation for the season yet to come, and about 25 per cent of the time left in which precipitation pre-cipitation is expected. Summit and parts of Morgan and Wasatch counties, which comprise com-prise the Weber river watershed, are only 50 per cent to 75 per cent normal, according to the information informa-tion available. The northern part of Rich county, on the Bear river drainage, Is in the same category. While the northern part of Box Elder county is extremely low in precipitation, the average for that county and most of Tooele county is approximately 75 to 100 per cent of normal. The average moisture for the southern part of the state Is much greater than than of the northern and central sections, with exception excep-tion of the western portions of Beaver, Millard, ad Juab counties, which range with the lowest. The average of the extreme southeast section of the state is as high as 75 per cent above normal, according accord-ing to the report. Based on present precipitation and snow cover, the run-off of the Bear and Weber rivers for the coming season is forecast at 35 per cent below normal, while that of Provo, Ogden, Logan, and Spanish Fork rivers is forecast at 15 per cent below normal. Storage in the 14 principal res- ervoirs of the state to date is 753,741 acre feet, or about one-third one-third less than the average of the past three years. Present storage figures for northern Utah reservoirs, reser-voirs, compared to that of last year at the same date, Is as fol: lows: Bear Lake, 371,300 acre feet (1941) and 641,600 (1940); Utah Lake, 181,000 and 272,000; Echo reservoir, 3320 and 4700; Pine View, 1591 and 14,100; East Canyon, 8900 and 17,250; Hy-rum Hy-rum reservoir, 5700 and 8023. |