Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-05-02 | Page 8 | Storm Has Passed; Frost is Also Gone

STORM HAS PASSED; FROST IS ALSO GONE Fruit Crop of State Is Safe and Harvest Promises to Be Abundant. The storm that has hnnp on in Salt Lako for tho hist three days, brincin rain and cold nifthts. has now passed, according to A. IT. Thiesscn, section director di-rector of the United Slates weather hurcau, and he predicts today will be fair and warmer. Tlowevor, in oxpocta-Uon oxpocta-Uon that frost would occur ln?t nip;ht and this morning Mr. Tluesson sent frost warnings to all tho fruit districts. Tho lowest temperature in the state occurred Thursday niphr. at Provo, where the mercury stood at 31 degrees, ono decrrco below freezing At many points frost occurred, but nowhoro way there a killing frost. Mr. Thicssscn savs the fnilnro of the frost to clam-age clam-age fruit is duo to tho fact that the blossoms aro heavily sot, :uid as a result re-sult there is little danger. Tho thermometer ther-mometer in Salt Luke rcjristorod 37 decrees as tho lowest early yesterday moruinp. However, the ground was much colder than tho air during the night and frost was formed, . and in 1 many parts of tho city thin ico froze on the ground. The weather report for tho last , month, issued yesterday. by tho weather office, shows that there was no frost ( during all of April. Thore wero only eight clear days, sixteen days being partlv cloudy and six cloudy. Tho total precipitation was 2.S4 or .58 of an inch , more than the average for tho month. Tho average tomporature for the month was 51 .S degrees. Tbo highest was 72 dogrccs, on April 4. and tho lowest, 3S degrees, on April TO. Out of a.n estimated esti-mated total of 400 hours of possible sunshine iboro wero 240 hours, or GO por cent.