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Show "June in January Weather" Brings Apprehensions Concerning Vater "June in January" might will be the theme song for the Springville area so far this month with the sun shining , lawns green, pansics in bloom and hyacinths pushing up through the ground. Only the tiny white snow flowers seem confused. All this, just a few weeks after a heavy November snow; temperatures tem-peratures dropping below zero, and predictions of the squirrels hiding hid-ing nuts for a long hard winter. Official mercury readings the past few days have been a few degrees ;above 60, tieing with the good weather records in January 1953. The darker side of the picture however reveals only 120,000 second feet of water available for irrigation in the Strawberry reservoir reser-voir as of January 1, compared to 145,000 last year and 189,000 at this time in 1953. The average over a ten-year period however is 122,000. Snow at the East Portal, Strawberry measured 12.8 inches on January 1, compared to 13.7 at the same time last year and a ten-year ten-year average of 22.2 inches on January 1. On the Strawberry Divide Snow course, there were 30.9 inches of snow January 1, compared to a 10-year average of 36.6. Old Man Winter Weather however still has time to deepen the snow in the canyons to supply the necessary moisture for spring crops. |