Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-01-05 | Page 2 | Six and a Half Feet is Fall of Snow Last Year; Records Broken

ix X IX AND A HALF FEET FEET FEE IS FALL OF ASNO JOW LAST YEAR RECORDS BROKEN Weather e ther Report Just Issued Is- Is sued aued Shows 1916 If Was as Unusual in Salt Lake LakeMore j More Noro than six anti and one half feet or 10 tobe ob be exact 76 Inches of ot snow tel fell In last This Salt SaIt alt Lake Lako during during- year broke all aU previous annual records t Other Othet notable features contained In Inthe Inthe the annual report of or the weather bu- bu u- u reau for tor latt year ear completed toda today Include tho ho fact that lint the snowfall in December totaled inches or more than two tw-o and a half hal feet teet breaking nil all previous lou monthly records The near- near st to 0 this was waR the snowfall in a single In amounting to o 0 37 Inches December proved pro to be the coldest month of ot the year car with a mean of or 78 degree July Jul turned out to l heh he- he e h warmest t with titI a mean of or de de- de grees rees I de-I If The rhe total iota precipitation for or the year elir I amounted to H 63 Inches which is IM hei he- he i 19 i pw normal i The percentage of oC sunshine was 69 I per Tel cent of oC the possible for fo 0 the year car I but lUt above e thc tha average It The average wind velocity for tor the year year was vas miles miles' per lIeI hour thc the thc great great- lt at velocity obtained on July Jub 2 of ot sixty I miles an nn hour V The fhe prevailing pre direction of or the wind Ta was from the northwest I The late frost trost of or th sprin was the i cause of or much damage to agricultural products r but bul a as a whole the season eason wn good to the farmers t Comparison of or the year ear 1515 with th the rC year r 1910 1916 Is as follows C Total snowfall inS Inches t V n 6 inches Precipitation 1915 19 1449 Inches 16 1563 inches r. r fr Temperature highest 1913 98 de- de 19 1916 99 91 degrees Temperature lowest o degrees m 2 I A Average wind velocity per hour J 7 72 mlle miles 1916 78 miles f Highest t wind nind velocity per hour 1915 5 I 66 6 1916 60 miles I