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Show Raindrops Fail to Register With the Weather Man WHILE the slight shower of yesterday afternoon cast a blanket of coolness over the city and afforded relief from the heat for a short period at least, it failed to break into tho records of the Tnited Slates weather bureau as a rainfall. A "trace" was the only note set down in the weather records in regard to precipitation. To record an entry as a rainfall it is necessary that the raindrops pat -; tcr ii n f i I they have formed a depth of one-hundredth of an Inch. The shower failed to reach the mark. Yesterday "s shower will have no effect on the record now being made, i whh-h is shattering more than a half j century's record in the matter of drought, ar-eording to J. Cecil Alter, I in charge of the local bureau. In answer to numerous inquries which have reached the weather bureau bu-reau recently as to the lack of water during the present season. Sir. Alter t yesterday prepared figures showing the amount of precipitation registered regis-tered on the surrounding watersheds during recent years and the present In every month the rainfall during1 the past winter on these rain sheds was less than 50 per cent of normal. For a period of forty-five years in Salt Lake the precipitation has averaged av-eraged 11.11 per cent between December Decem-ber and June. In 1318-19 during these months the precipitation was 6.91, or 62 per cent of normal. For the last eight years at Midvale the precipitation precipi-tation was 9.yo. The past season it was but 6.03. or 61 per cent of normal. nor-mal. At lower Mill creek. City creek and Silver lake a corresponding shortage is showr |