Salt Lake Telegram | 1945-10-01 | Page 11 | Weather Year Ends with Hectic Record

WrEA WEATHER THIER YEAR I ENDS WITH HECTIC RECORD A new weather year opened Monday on a bright and sunny Bunny note with a forecast of clear and warmer for Monday and Tuesday and top readings inthe in inthe inthe the and a low of 40 The old year ended at midnight midnight mid mid- night and weather officials I Monday were tabulating the score for a year of weather that several times p pushed hed the war right out of top place on the front page The score It was wet with inches more rainfall than average but the preceding year was wetter with inches excess rainfall S Several eve r aIr records e cor d s were chalked up June set a new 1 low iY In a average temperatures tures July made a new hourly precipitation precipitation pre pre- record August had 13 days with more than 01 inch of rainfall a a. record and September had the highest wind velocities since records have been kept at the airport Station tatIon Biggest show was the hailS hailstorm hail- hail S storm storm- t tor 0 r m cloudburst flood of Aug 19 which wreaked havoc at the tho airport the city cemetery tery tory and throughout the western western west west- em ern section of Salt Lake te City The weather year ended with a cool dry period Sunday Sundays Sunday's Sundays Sunday's Sun Sun- days day's a average v e era r a g e temperature was 7 degrees bel below w normal and those of the preceding week had hovered about 10 degrees below Sundays Sunday's extremes extremes extremes ex ex- ex- ex were 67 and 34 deI de de- de- de grees gre I