| Show Weather and Crops Report for October of J H Hmlth Obeserver nnd Section Director Salt Lake City Utah During the month of October the weather conditions In Utah weie about normal except III the I mnlter of precipitation pre-cipitation which averaged above normal nor-mal in nearly all cectlons of the tate The month opened tlolIJy anti stormy with n bony Ihundcrlonn on the afternoon of the tat which was accompanied ac-companied by high wind rain and hall On the Till n 1 desttuetho Hood occurred near Menu In Oiand county causing ho death of Cart X Itoren by drowning drown-ing The first snow fall uf the season occurred on the Kth catering the ground to a depth ot about 3 Inches 1 At the close of the month fall plowing nnd sending was practically finished nnd much of the grain was up and looking remarkably well The mmes were lepirted in prime oHllllon the grass In some sections being 6 Inches high tommrThe mean temperature for the Mate nail 47 S degrees hlhool monthly mean f7 0 flegrecs at It Uoro Wnhln lon county lowest monthly Inn 405 degrees nt Soldier Summit Utah coUnl highest temperature G degree ot Cisco lrnd county lowest 1 temperature temper-ature 7 Krees nt Loa Wane coun i tyt the mnxlnJl lmproIUls occurred oc-curred at the majorllYor 11Illons d rIng r-Ing the first week ot the month and the minimum on the 211h and 28th Range at temperature for tho State 79 dvilirees Average monthly lunge ot lompernloro l 6 d The nvcrnoo Iclllnllon for the State wo 218 Inches greatest monthly i month-ly amount rocorolcd was 376 i Inches nt Pinto Washington county nnd the leI OIS Inches nt Park City Tho relay das were genemllv the lot till Cth 14th 15th ilth and 2th The average aver-age depth of snowfall during the month was 10 Inches The average number of clear dos was 13 fair day 8 cloudy 1lays I 10 find dajs on which 01 ot an Inch or more or rain fell 8 The prevailing direction of the wind WIUO southwest Total movement nt Salt iJikc City 4 3TC miles and the highest velocity SO miles per hour from the southwest on the 21th Miscollan lhonmnaThlln 11010 loOn 3 7 8 9 Iarown r 0 8 13 Park City 71 Ilehor 6 Salt Inke 1 Vernal 1 Mlnersvllle 5 6 8 13 Giles 6780 15 16 23 Snowvlll 1 St George C 0 THlco 3 ro 6 8 Tropic 7 Pnhreah 1 D 0 I 7 8 9 11 11 IE IlallSclllo 7 Lev an 23 Park rlty 1 7 Vernal 1 Salt Lake City 1 I lion 8 Ijigan 11 Plate 13 sleet Pnrowan 21 Park City 7 Mlnersvllle 13 25 Giles 16 21 Tropic 24 Floods rast of lloab 7lh Dense FogPark City 7 R 9 10 Jtomarks of olwn ers Ierron Wet m ont h tn hryelln work very milch hlndeled Henrj Cullum Ii > on14th first snow In mountn 251h ran rowIng row-Ing completed wheat all up and looking look-ing well Wm Drawn Ixisnn IIeay hailstorm October lot 12 30 p mt first snow October 14th James Drvden Moab On the 7th occurred n terrible flood cost of Militia causing tho drowning drown-ing ot Call J lloren Henry Crouse |
