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Show WEATHER RUNS ENTIRESCALE Rain, Hail, Sleet, Snow, Lightning Noted Mother nature put on a. spectacular spec-tacular a" - w for Salt Lakers Sunday Sun-day and Monday as the first days of the weather year were ushered in by rain, hall, sleet, snow, thunder thun-der and lightning. Federal weather observers here were busy getting their statistics straighten ' out, balancing last year's b ..ks and getting off to a running start for 1939-40. The weather year began October 1. A general storm that blanketed the Rocky mountain and plateau states region brought .24 of an Inch of . . -capitation to Salt Lake Citv in the 24 hours ended Mon- day at 8 a. m, with more thun-1 der showers during the day rapidly rapid-ly ad ancing the total. , Jupiter Pluvius fun really started start-ed here Sunday at 1:30 p. m. with a hail storm followed by a driving driv-ing rain. Storm sewers rapidly clogged in various parts of the city, flowers in gardens on the east bench were beaten down by Icy pellets, some of which were 3-8 inch in diameter, and citizens caught flatfooted outdoors without with-out adequate protection were soaked. The first snow of the season tinged high peaks of the Wasatch range and flashes of lightning streaked across the sky in late afternoon. Rains were general throughout Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Wyomli . Ogden received the brunt of the storm In Utah with 1.24. Inches of precipitation. Utah Power and Light company substations reported re-ported the following amounts of precipitation in Utah and Idaho: Logan. .42; Ogden, 1.24; Salt Lake terminal, .06 precipitation was scattered throughout the city with much more falling at the U. S. - --ther bureau station); Bingham. Bing-ham. .05; Provo, Jl; Eureka, J6; Soldier Summit, .05 and Helper, a trace. i |