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Show ONE MONTH'S WEATHER. Utah lias an Unusual Amount of Snow During December. The recapitulation of Utah wenther for December, as compiled by Observer Sails-bury Sails-bury from the statistics of the signal olll e, is as follows : "The month was characterized by nbui-.'!-ant snowfall. The aVerage amount of rain and melted snow at tho different stations was 1.43 Inches. The average depth of the snow, fall rnngctl from 1 to ;)4 inches, and perhaps it was even greater in localities which did not report. Xophi reported 34 inches for the month, with 111 inches remaining unmeltcd at the end of the mouth; Ogden, 82 inches; Grouse Creek, HI inches, with 13 remaining untuellcd; Provo reported 39 inches; Levau, inches, vith '.I remaining unmelted; Suit Lake, 21 inches, w ith 3 left unmelted ; Loaee, 15 inches, with S unmelted; Snowville, !, inches, with I t unmelted other stations I: "1 less amounts. "State of Weather: Over the greater p i t of the territory the month was unusually cloudy and stormy ; more than half of the days were recorded as cloudy. The suit-shine suit-shine was 30 percent of the possible amount. Days with rain varied from 2 to 15 at the (17-fercnt (17-fercnt stations. The snowfall for Decern", r in the vicinity of Salt Lake was as much aa bad fallen In the entire previous season. Ac-cumulatthg Ac-cumulatthg In the mountains as it is now doing, it will undoubtedly prove very beneficial, bene-ficial, assuring an ample water supply for the ensuing growing season, and it is reasonable reason-able to conjecture that unusually lari;e crops will be raised in 1SU2, other conditions being favorable." |