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Show LIGHT SNOWFALL IS CAUSE OF ALARM '"3 tS5 t j vS WEATHER MAP SHOWS PRECIPITATION PRECIPITATION7" DISTRIBUTION FOR UTAH, 1914. j prP AnnualJprecipitatioA L i 7 jfis'Stt " w a .- m c: jfM i ' -SCALCor SHADES- IN TNCHCS j ' Less w 5oy0 0tol5 J5tc0 More than"" 0 Average Supply of Moisture Mois-ture in Wasatch Range Is Normal. THOUGH the light precipitation of the early "winter months has result! re-sult! in a scarcity of snow id j the mouutains, such as to cause ioncern over possible scarcity of water :or irrigation purposes, yet the report f the Trpather "bureau shows that the precipitation for Uil-A was about nor-nal. nor-nal. This was duo to the excessive jrecipitation in the early months of the ear. The accompanying chart of the an-mal an-mal precipitation fur the Mate during 1914 was prepared by A. IT. Thienon'. lection director of the T'uited States leather bureau, f.'ommenting upon the :hart, iLr. Tbier-scn has tho following x say: Jt is remarkably similar to the chart of normal precipitation, both in regard to distribution and amount. Note how the larger amounts are in the region of the V.'asatch mountains. Kegions of Ipps precipitation are t lie Colorado river valley and the western portion por-tion of the state. The two greatest features in this connection were the heavy precipitation precipi-tation in June, which exceeded all records, and the large amount in January, which was much above nnnaf. The precipitation for tho state was 3.i39 inches, or 0.84 of an :"ch above norma. January was the wettest month, with an avpr-a"e avpr-a"e of 2.61 inches, which in J .l'S inches above normal; and June was the next with an average of 2.u.'i inches, which is 1.4" inches above normal. Tho greatest lor;U monthly month-ly amount was 7. GO inches at Pari; City in January. The greatest local lo-cal annual amount was 23.S.'( inches at Lower Mill Creek, aiul the b-ast was fj.O'J inch ps at Wendov er. The average number of rainy days for the year was sixtv-Mx, |