Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-02-27 | Page 13 | Utah Rainfall Data Confuses

UTAH RAINFALL DATA CONFUSES Drouth Possibility Is Uncertain You who like like- to judge from figures whether another drouth is coming this this summer summer look over these reports from the weather bureau and draw your our own conclusions Precipitation for January and February Feb to date of ot this year is less than half of oC normal and less leS than third one-third of that in January Januar and February last year the drouth year I January and February of or last year were well wen over oer normal but a drouth followed anyhow But precipitation since last October October Octo Octo- to-I to ber including January and this I month to date is 22 above oye normal normil while the precipitation for the same period ending in February 1931 was I substantially deficient Which means that hea heavy precipitation j tion lion late in 1934 has carried over into 1935 to give a total figure at this time in excess of or normal despite I Ithe the fact that last month was the third January in Salt Lake City his his- tor tory with only 30 of an inch of moisture moisture mois moLs-i ture against a normal of or The weekly crop and range report of ot the bureau s said id there is more snow in th the mountains than a year ago but water supplies generally are arc appreciably ap ap- ap- ap less les than a year ago Fair weather is predicted for Wednesday night and Thursday Tuesdays Tuesday's average temperature of ot 33 degrees was 4 below normal