| Show 1flTA 11EAVIEST RAIN I Precipitation of the Past Two Days the Greatest Known t I Since Establishment of Weather Bureau Here Total precipitation during T the storm up to 10 oclock last night 334 inchss Precipitation for twenty four hours ended at 6 oclock last night 265 indies Previous record for twen tyfour hours Juno 5 1885 2 inches The rain record for Salt Lake and Utah has been broken by the unprecedented unpre-cedented storm which has prevailed for the last two days nut a large part of the Rocky mountain region has been given a thorough drenching The rainfall since the storm began at S20 Thursday morning had rearhed u total i of 334 Inches at 10 oclock last night and Section Director Murdoch of Ihoi weather bureau said that from the way Uie rain was coming doun he believed the total would reach at least 375 Inches and possibly four inches bofore the end of the storm which is I expected to occur some lime this mornIng morn-Ing There has been no such rainfall Jn the State since the beginning of the records the nearest approach to it having been on June 5 1S85 when two Inches of rain fell between 330 a m 1 and 6S5 p m r me record 01 me regulation nours of computing rainfall that Is the twentyfour hours from S f p m tot fi to-t p m showed 203 Inches for yesterday yes-terday which breaks the record by C5 Inch The storm center has been stationary on lie Rocky mountain lope STORM WAS GiSNEKAL That the utorm has been genera is evidenced not only by the regular weather reports received at tin Sa1t Lake office of the weather bureau but from the reports of the railroads and travelers arriving from different poInts The riilroadK were Jn straits yester day on account of trouble with the wires The Short Lines wires fouth of this city were reported as all down for a good part of the day and connec lion with the north was not regular Eut reports that did get through gave plenty of rain and wet snow fo the solul with rain In soulhern Idaho and snow and rain in soulhcrn and western west-ern Wyoming The Rio Grande Western West-ern dispatchers olllce wits troubled with bad Wiles all day so that only occasional mestages could get through These reported rain all over the val j leys with snow In the mountains along I the line of the road The fall was gen oral over the Green River desert the piecipiialion at Grand Junction yesterday yes-terday morning having been nearly ono inch Yesterdays vealher map showed a 12 inch fall nL Winnemucca 10 inch al Santa Fe 40 Inch at Pocatello 64 inch at Helena and OS inch at Miles City The range of the storm Included most of Texas and up through JU11 nola the rainfall at Chicago being H Inch The temperatures ranged moderately mod-erately high and the wind In this city reached 22 miles an hour at odd times Thera was general Interest In the storm in this city ycaterday especially after 30 a m when the weather bureau bu-reau sent out the bulletin that the rainfall for the twentyfour hours ending end-ing at that time was 24 1 inches the heaviest twentyfour hours prcclplta ton that has occurred here since 1875 when the records began The weather office lathe Dooly block was besieged all day by Inquirers and the ring of the telephone bell was heard all the day long Section Director Murdoch I and his assistants were on the Jump J most of the day overhauling records and answering countless questions but they replied to all queries with good nature and did not appear to be disturbed dis-turbed at all OTHER BIG RAINS llr Murdoch published In connection with yesterdays weather map a schedule sched-ule of some of theMienvlest twenty fourhour rainfalls in Salt Lake City The statistics are cut follows OR2 lESSJnnunry Ith v 332 1SS3 February Ith 117r J87lMarch 30th LIO 1R2 April Cth 133 ISSOAprll 7th Sth 135 lfi Mny 17th 135 1BO > Juno 29th Mth 200 lVJune oth 077 1SJ > 3 July 23rd 101 ISSSAugusi 2ih SOth 1S4 1 SS September 1st 2ndi 120 1S73 September SOth 101 aSSC October iSth 19th 116 lS7rNTovcmbor 18th lCS iSSSDeccmbcr 14lh 10th The ngnnal precipitation at Salt Lake City for May is 172 inches and the heaviest May precipitation was 130 Inches In 1S7 > the May precipitation In 1SOS being 110 Inches STORY OF THK STORM The history of the storm is as follows fol-lows The barometric pressure began to fall at this point on the morning oC April 27th and on the morning of April 25th a storm of considerable energy was noted on the Washington coast On the 29th the storm area had stretched f over the northwest coast and in the next twentyfour hours made rapid ogress reaching Montana and SVyo ming on the 0th RaIn struck the southwest part of this State May 1st and began falling In this city at 820 ain a-in May 2nd The storm center passed over Salt Lake Tuesday night but it la a peculiarity oC this Immediate region that the heaviest precipitation follows the passage of the storm center while In some other localities the heaviest PreciPitatIon precedes the passage of the Jjtovm center Vlien asked for scIentific reasons for the occurrence of such a storm Sic llon Director Murdoch said that an attempt at-tempt to answer would be largely speculative spec-ulative us the upper air currents often ohange and assume conditions for which Jio satisfactory reasons can be assigned owing to the currents being beyond the rtiach oil the instruments of the weather bureau So until the upper up-per air currents can be reached by some kiteflying apparatus for analysis analy-sis at critical moments deductions from probable conditions will have to be relied upon ON GREEN RIVER DESERT 1 i At a late hour last night it was j learned that it was raining hard allover all-over the Green River desert The rain has mack It necessary to run slow pn the railcoads owing to soften lug of roadbeds The train from San Francisco due yesterday afternoon did not arrive until late in the cVenlng and the evening train from the west was four hours late The Rio Grande 1055 p m train of last night was over two hours late and the trains from the north and from the cast over the Union Pacific were belated i |
