Show STORM TORM STORM HEAVY i IN JN UTAH AREA S HeavIest Heaviest rain In of the month bathed S S n o r t h CT n. n and Utah Utah Thursday Jy and rid late Wednesday day bringing nee needed d' d moisture to grass grasslands grasslands S lands I and newly planted crops Precipitation of 37 Inch In Salt SaltS S ty boost boosted d. d total rainfall in April to 78 Inch Irb which which is scarcely more moro than third one the normal of amount 2 02 Inches S Light showers continued to fall during the m morning hours Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day but federal weather men predict pre pie S dict that Thursday night and arid FrIday Friday Fri FrI- day day will be generally general fair Heavy Near Logan The storm was heaviest on the West est sl slopes pes of oC the mountains between between between be be- tween Logan and Provo according to reports from Utah Power Power- and Light company colpany su substations stations S Brighton n on the Salt Lake City S w watershed te sh d re received elved three inches of now increasing the total on the theS S ground to tb 45 inches water department department depart depart- ment officials reported The present pres pres- ent snow depth is 20 inches less than a a year ago ago- but the water content is approximately the tho same 5 Inches i On Onni nine of r these d days ys however the tho rainfall amounted to merely a z trace trac Tho The r rain fn resulted late Wednesday from a a sudden rise in the barometric barometric barometric baro baro- metric p pressure e ure which had been fairly low tow the past several days Southern Utah reported no rain and Modena recorded a freezing S. S temperature of 32 degrees degre s early Thursday S The e average temperature in Salt I S t Lake Lace City Wednesday was 56 degre degrees de do- gre grees s three degrees above normal 5 5 and the low point of 43 degrees S Thursday morning was was exactly normal S Wiped Out Excess S The unusual dryness this month has wiped out the re p-re precipitation excess ex ex- J 1 cess built bunt up tIp since last October 1 S. S Mr Alter said Including Thursdays Thursday's Thursdays Thursday's Thursdays Thursday's Thurs Thurs- days day's storm total precipitation is only anly 1077 1071 inch inches s. s 33 3 inch below normal Prec Precipitation recorded ed at power company substations was Logan 3 35 Inch Ogden 17 Salt Lake ter terminal ter ter-I minal l 37 31 Provo canyon 15 Eureka Eureka Eureka Eu Eu- reka 21 Soldier Summit 03 trace i of Dt snow and Helper 23 |