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Show REPORT OF WEATHER II SB RECORD Average Temperature for January Is Exceptionally Low; Rainfall Heavy. To read the report of A. II. Thiessen, section director of the -weather bureau, on the doings of tho weathor in January, Janu-ary, this year, is to shiver at the thought of what one has gone through. With tho incontrovertible evidence of his thermometer readings to substantiate substan-tiate his words, Mr. Thiessen makes the very cool statement that tho average temperature lor the past January was lower than that of any other January for sixteen years, except January, 1913. Tho summary of his report follows: This month was exceptionally cold, the" temperature averaging lower than any January of roeoru since ISl'S with the excoption of January, 1913, which was somewhat colder. Tho snow cover was very light or none at all except during the last few days ot the month, when considerable snow fell; but no damage dam-age to winter wheat or range cattlo was reported. This mouth, like the preceding December, was characterized bv a long period of unbroken cold weather culminating in some very low temperatures on the 22nd, 23r'd and 2-1 1 n ; but those temperatures, comparatively speaking, wore not excessively low. Fort Duchesne reported re-ported a monthly mean teniDerature 1 degree above normal, and with this exception all stations having long enough records to compute a normal reported means below normal. nor-mal. The cold weather covered a period from the 1st to tho 26th, after which latter date the weather was mild and the highest temperatures tempera-tures for the month were recorded. There were on the average six rainy days in the mouth, which was about normal. The precipitation for the state averaged slightly below normal. Small amounts occurred during the first half of the month, but on the last few days of the month comparatively large amounts of heavy wet snow fell generally throughout the state, which did much to improve the prospects for sufficient irrigating water for next Eprmg and summer. |