Show SURPRISE STORMS DONE AWAY WITH Weather Bureau Perfects Ser Service Service vice Which Will Notify I Everyone in Time TimeA I A system of telephone telegraph mall malland malland and flag weather warnings is gradually nearing perfection in the local weather er I bureau by means of which it wIll wUl be pos possible I sible to send out warnings to nearly all parts of the state of storm and frost frostI about twelve hours before they arrIve I Since the first of the year additional service nas been engaged and more will willbe willbe I be added from time to time so that the I system will be continually improving ThEl Th old way of advising farmers and others In outlying parts of the state of the pro probable able weather conditions was to mall mail print printed ed sUps slips which sometimes did not arrive until a week after the date of mailing malUng The rural free delivery routes being es ed helped this out somewhat but nt enough to be of much value Lately however the system has been changed Flag System Signs As soon as the weather report has been completed in the local office at about 8 SiG a m it is telephoned to the long distance operator who In turn advises every long distance operator In the state so that farmers cn can obtAin the weather forecast free of charge over the telephone at any time the day In the districts where telephones are not much used the forecast is wIred to the postmaster who with a a small printing outfit furnished him by the weather bu bureau bureau reau prints It upon addressed cards which are delivered by the rural free delivery deliverymen men In other stations flags are used to sig signal nat nal the weather conditions to the sur surrounding surrounding rounding country The flag Is placed on the highest buildIng In town and can generally be seen for a considerable din dis distance tance Salt Lake has one flag station which Is on the Utah Savings Trust company building In other parts of the country whistles are used and It Is probable able that thIs system will come Into use useIn usein In Utah In the near future In the whis whistle tie tle system one long blast Indicates fair fairweather fairweather weather two long blasts rain or snow and three long blasts local rain or Gr snow Tern Tem Temperatures are indicated by short blasts The whistles are blown each morning Whistles Tell Weather In the flag system colors and shapes are used to indicate the vagaries of the weather as follows A square white flag alone Indicates fair fairweather weather and stationary temperature A square blue flag IndIcates rain or snow with stationary temperature A Square flag half blue and half white indicates local rain or snow with station stationary stationary ary temperature A square white flag with a black tri triangular angular flag Indicates fair weather er and warmer A square white flag with a black tri tn triangular angular flag under it means fair weather and colder A square aguare blue flag with Ii a black ree tangular flag above It indicates rain or snow and warmer and with the blac triangular under Indicates rain or snow and colder A halt half white and half balf blue flag with a ablack ablack black triangular over it Indicates local rain or snow and warmer while the same with the black triangular underneath means local rain or snow and colder A square white flag with ith a black square In the center indicates a cold wave In Involving Involving frost 0 r |