Ii r r UTA UTAH H HI APRIL 1977 I PRECIPITATION F Percentage o of at the I 72 1958 Average I GREAT w R NOAA National weather Service I SetT Salt t take Lake City Utah Utah I K 1 N Na NI I 1 I i a 1 s e I LESS 25 I It I I VE L t 1 1 i J f 25 2 5 50 1 1 NEPHI t PAIGE m D f CASTI a V i l 80 SEVIER LAKE l'- l' I lL L RICHFIELD 4 A AI I f As L S i r i ii P t tP te I 1 I II e e I I CEDAR aTY BLANDING Ir I I i 1 LAKE SAM FN Y a LL GEOR GEORGE GEORGEf I f I UTAH 1 OCT 1976 APR 1977 I Percentage of the i 72 1958 Average GREAT A AI 1 ArN NOAA I SALT I National Weather Service 1 E iI i- i Salt Lake City Utah I I N I 25 50 I e v 0 VERNAL I IF AR s 4 s. s F e I sc 80 NEPHI PRICE I W WA Wc I k Are c 1 i w DE h A I IS t It I I S SEVIER LAKE r t i I t. t I ILP E A i t LESS THAI c i iL L 4 CEDAR CITY I BLANDING I LAKE SM 5 WAGN A POWELL I ST Water Wafer supply outlook The water supply outlook for eastern Utah is even more grim than last month as many precipitation stations continue to observe record low seasonal amounts according to the May report of the National Weather Service The Green River is forecast to have 28 percent of normal flow into Flaming Gorge Reservoir and 28 percent at Green River Utah The Uintah Basin forecast ranges from 8 percent at the Duchesne River at My Myton ton to 33 percent at atRock atRock atRock Rock Creek near Mountain MountainHome MountainHome MountainHome Home Scofield Reservoir inflow inflow in in- Inflow flow is forecast at 17 percent and Huntington Creek near 20 percent The forecasts for Ashley Creek near Vernal AF and 30 percent and Huntington Creek near Huntington AF and 20 percent are lower than the previous record low year of 1934 The Duchesne River near Tabiona the Duchesne near Duchesne and Moon Lake Reservoir inflow forecasts equal the record low flows of 1934 in each case The water year flows to date at Green River near Green River Utah has been acre feet 58 percent of normal Strawberry Reservoir acre feet 45 percent Moon Lake acre feet 58 percent percent per per- cent and Scofield Reservoir acre feet 57 percent STORAGE in Flaming Gorge Reservoir acre feet 70 percent of the usable capacity and acre feet less than this time last year Lake Powell contains acre feet 67 percent of the usable capacity and acre feet less than last year Precipitation stations in eastern Utah that have record record low seasonal totals forthe forthe for forthe the indicated periods Strawberry Daniels since 1938 Manila since 1953 and Yellowstone Ranger Station since 1947 1917 The areal pattern is 30 to 50 percent of average except Roosevelt which has had only 10 percent of normal April precipitation was disappointing as the area received only 30 to 70 percent of normal with the exception of Vernal which h had LOB percent of the April normal The eastern Utah tent are mostly zero o with only a few few of the higher courses having any snow left