Show S. S L. L Area Slated For More Snow Light to heavy snow blanketed Salt Lake City and most of Utah's mountain areas again Wednesday morning but weather officials said the fall faU was only one of the several several sev sev- eral snow flurries expected during the day The fall faU faded away to only light flak fiak flakes s s' s by midmorning and the cloudy skies akies remaining over the area area were not expected to produce anything more than intermittent snow showers Thursdays Thursday's weather is scheduled to be a repeat performance of Wednesdays Wednesday's conditions with scattered scattered scattered scat scat- snow flurries along the mountains and little change in temperatures While the western slopes of the Wasatch mountains continued to receive light snow attacks other parts of the intermountain region had nearly clear skies The storm which hit the state Tuesday morning morning morning morn morn- ing had moved down into New Mexico Wednesday leaving only the shower activity in the mountain moun mound tam tain sections Despite a high pressure ce cell 1 pushing southwest from Canada with some of the cold air moving across across the continental divide temperatures temperatures tem tern in the Salt Lake vicinity Wednesday are to be one or two degrees above the maximum maximum maximum maxi maxi- mum of 40 registered Tuesday The Thelow Thelow Thelow low Thursday morning will be beabout beabout beabout about 17 somewhat below the Wednesday minimum of 22 but a high of around 43 is is expected Thursday afternoon The storm which has continued off and on since Monday has set the precipitation total for the weather year above the time long normal again weather officials said A total precipitation to date of inches 1 12 above the norm was reported Outlook for for tho the tho next few days is for more light snow and hopes are that a wet March will more than make up up for the normal below-normal deposits of February Wallace W. W Lamoreaux In charge of water supply forecasts i reported six streams on watersheds watersheds watersheds water water- sheds adjacent to Salt alt Lake City have a 98 or normal stream flow The colder weather during the past few days has restricted farm work in most sections of ot the state except in the Salt Lake valley and arid Utah county where preparations and plowing for spring planting have been lieen going forward Current soil moisture supplies arc are adequate throughout the state state- Tuesdays Tuesday's storm produced from four to six inches of snow in the Salt Lake vicinity with other sections sections sec see of the state reporting depths about the same or slightly below the Salt Lake Jail fall taU Snow was still falling Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day daj at Alta and Brighton but the he road to Alta was closed Indefinitely indefinitely due to snow depth and snow slide hazards The Brighton road is open but chains are advised 1 30 am a.m. 29 8 30 am a.m. 22 2 30 am a.m. 29 9 30 am a.m. 23 am a.m. 28 1030 am a.m. 23 4 30 am a.m. 27 11 1130 30 am a.m. 24 5 30 am a.m. 27 12 1230 30 pm p.m. 26 6 30 sum nm 25 1 30 pm p.m. 28 7 30 am a.m. 23 2 30 pm p.m. 29 |