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Show GOOD WEATHER : YEAR RECORDED Old Mother Nature was good to Salt Lake City for the weather .year ended at midnight September Septem-ber 30, J. Cecil Alter, federal meteorologist, me-teorologist, reported Tuesday. During the year Salt Lake City Tiad 138 clear days, radiating 3046 hours of sunshine. There were ' 104 partly cloudy days, 116 cloudy i days, 93 days wtlh precipitation of i '.01 Inch or more and 21 with more 1,than one-quarter Inch precipitation. precipita-tion. . Wind blew through Salt Lake City enough to circle the world approximately two and one-half times for a total of 61.014 miles. Although April 5 had the highest velocity, recorded at 40 miles an Jiour, May had 6327 miles of wind, June 6049 miles, April 5697 miles, while March, the allegedly windy month, came a poor eighth with a measly 4966 miles. , Ne Zera Weather ) The Utah capital had 14 days nore than usual of freezing weather, which was offset by 20 days mora than usual of temperatures tempera-tures reaching 90 degrees or above. . The lowest temperature recorded record-ed was 7 degrees above zero February Feb-ruary 2. Usually there la ona day below zero. February waa the coldest month with below freezing f irrp"ritiim tY-try dry. January had 29 days in which temperatures reached 32 degrees or below, De- cember 23, November 25, October 1, March 12 and April 2 for a total of 120 days, as compared to a nor- I mal of 106. , Salt Lake City had 49 days when temperatures reached 90 degrees or more. The normal Is 29 days. Heat Above Normal The highest temperature was 103, on July 9 and 14. July had nine days in succession above 90. The average daily temperature was 1.3 degrees more than usual. Although the amount of precipl- tation waa less than last year and j below normal, Salt Lake City had , 9.4 inches more snow than normal nor-mal and 22.7 inches more than the preceding year, for a total of 63.3 inches. Only 13.89 inches of rainfall were recorded for the year, as compared to 15.84 inches a year ago and 16.13 normal. April had only .92 Inch of rainfall, as compared to a normal of 2.05 inches. |