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Show There's No Question; It's Been a Wet One Residents of Grand County, in recalling last year, have no doubt in their minds that the first three months of 1973 ,have been considerably ,' wetter than the same ' period last year. In order ord-er to find just how much i wetter, this week The 'Times contacted Atlas 'Minerals which record our temperatures and precipitation figures. The difference in the two years was found to be considerable. During the first three months of last year, no precipitation at ai was recorded, according to the records. In fact, no precipitation was recorded re-corded last year until June, when a total of .49 was reported. This year, during January alone there were 1.67 inches of moisture. All of this was in the form of snow. February, although cold, saw only .06 inches of moisture recorded. During March, the total jumped again to .70 inches. in-ches. The first day of April added another .66 in the heaviest rain-"t'rm rain-"t'rm of the season to date. The Hrst quarter of i is yea . with its heavy "i e continues a uenu of heavy rainfall which began last September, Sep-tember, when over an inch was recorded. October Oc-tober saw more than 3-12 inches of moisture mois-ture and November recorded re-corded .96 inches. December, De-cember, when the first snows began, ended with a total of 1.21 inches. The total precipitation for the period September Septem-ber through December was 6.8 inches which added to the moistue of this ear makes a total of 9.85 inches. This total for the past seven months is more than is received in this area during an average year. Weather forecasts for the coming week indicate that the warming trend which is normally received re-ceived during February or March may begin near the end of the first week of April. |