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CC 2007 Mfc4HmHW THURSDAY OnZXBZD' Normal Season To Date To Date Rainfall year: Oct. 1st Cairo St. 6037 6036 5736 5734 5727 6137 6035 6029 Ogden Heber City Orem Utah Lake Beirut St. 6540 6339 6348 6048 6330 6539 6539 7033 Provo Airport, Salt Lake City Beijing Rio HighLow - 8576 pc 5434 s Bogota Brussels to some sun Til mam isOri . Intervals of clouds and sunshine 9 Normal Yesterday HighLow Provo-BY- Auckland Cl Clouds and sun; nice in the afternoon OFF AHYEHTF.EE WEDNESDAY Regional almanac 8872 pc Acapuko 50 cioudS Utah & The West TODAY HiLo W CITY TUESDAY giving way April Monday. DAVID JAMES answers your weather questions DJAMESSHERALDEXTRA.COM - si '" bti Weather history he weather in March at the Provo-BYweather station ended up drier than normal with well above-normtempera tures which was just the opposite of last March. Provo logged only 1.45 inches of precipitation last month, which was below the normal of 2.02 inches. Since the water year began Oct. 1, only 8.22 inches of moisture have been recorded. The normal to date is 11.55 inches. The average daily high temperature in March was 61.1 degrees, which was above the normal of 55.9 degrees. The average nightly low was 35.2 degrees, which was above the normal of 33.7 degrees. The warmest temperature during the month was 79 degrees on March 13 while the coldest was 13 degrees on March 3. Other precipitation totals for the month included 2.31 inches in Alpine, 1.17 inches at the Spanish Fork Powerhouse, 1.21 inches in Spring-vill- e and 1.58 inches in Pleasant Grove. Lake City dropped to more than 3 inches of rain fell in Tooele; the Wasatch Mountains had more than 2 feet of snow. In 2003, a sandstorm in Eagle Mountain contributed to a school bus crash. April 2: In 1936, Salt 14 degrees. In 1986, al Sun & moon 0 0 0 0 Full Last quarter New First quarter Apr. 2 Apr. 10 Apr. 17 Apr. 24 M:l:M','i RISES a.m. SUN 7:10 MOON 8:13 p.m. SETS RISCS SETS 7:52 p.m. 7:08 a.m. 7:53 p.m. a.m. 9:14 p.m. 7:19 a.m. 6:59 National forecast A few showers and thunderstorms will occur from the eastern Carolinas into the Gulf Coast states today. Farther north, rain will dampen New England, and some snow will fall in the colder air across Maine. Sky watch Sower Jim Todd. md Industry FJ 1 the Tonight's brightest star in the constellation Virgo, is just below the moon as they rise in mid evening. Sky: Spica, Oregon Muuum of Soenct MERCURY VENUS MARS JUPITER SATURN RISES 6:23 l.m. 8:40 i.m. 5:27 a.m. 1:18 a.m. 3:10 p.m. SETS 5:41 10:58 3:59 10:43 5:13 p.m. p.m. p.m. a.m. a.m. First signs of decreased meth use eraerging in some U.S. communities Martha Irvine and similar cold medicine ingredients used to make meth. Officials feared that methamphetamine from Mexico would simply fill the void. And while authorities in some places have noticed an uptick in imported meth, others are hopeful that meth use is starting to wane. And Quest Diagnostics Inc. a especially on the East Coast, where New Jersey company that maintains meth became a problem more rea national drug testing index based cently. At one Minneapolis-are- a on millions of tests each year South Florida has, for instance, . high found that 16 out of every 10,000 continued to see a steady increase in school, the methamphetamine problem got so bad in recent years that d deaths, from 77 in 2003 drug tests in the general work force came back positive for meth in 2006. staff members sometimes caught to 115 last year. It's also more of an students trying to attend class while urban problem than a rural one, with That compares with 26 in 2005 and 33 Some examples: the year before that. much of the meth coming from Mexhigh. While they still remain above the But this year's been notably difHn Minnesota's Twin Cities, ico by way of Atlanta, says Jim Hall, d national average for overall positive i executive director of the Up Front ferent, says Deborah Mosby, a high emergency room visits tests for the amphetamine class of school drug counselor in Spring Lake dropped from 1,402 in 2005 to 251 in Drug Information Center in Miami 2006, according to a recent report by Others have noted surges in use in drugs, Idaho, Wyoming, New Mexi- " Park, Minn. and also that turn gray and deteriorate. co, Hawaii and Georgia saw the big- It's a positive sign in a statVthat is the nonprofit Hazelden Foundation. the Hispanic community I In Montana, a new report from one of many hard hit by the meth epithe advent of strawberry and other gest drops in those positive tests, says Newmeyer believes such effects have helped change attitudes about that state's attorney general noted and one of seversUarly-ia- -. demic flavored meth, aimed at renewing Quest researcher Barry Sample. crime fell 53 percent meth for 'probably the same reasons interest In the drug. , Lisa Madigan, the state attorney dications that a drug that's long ben that , we saw the decline 10 years ago StilL for much of the country, rea scourge is losing its grip, at least in in 2006, compared with the previous general in Illinois, isn't ready to de- - . s dare victory in her state but says the with and crack searchers say it appears this latest some communities. year. They also found that, while meth remains a big problem there, cocaine." meth epidemic reached Its peak in significant reduction in meth lab seiLast year, federal officials and ; Monin zures has been a positive first step. of numrate overall 2005. "It the not 2004 and the became the that to states employees just thing reported many "There's simply a difference in the . methtana who tested positive for meth Data from the federal government do," says Newmeyer, who tracks his bers of small that the labs more 70 of time down was than from first number a the shows the federal that for numbers labs impact were percent region's drug dropping, amphetamine ' have In the cost to families and in 2005 to last year. meth users has steadily declined in result largely attributed to the crackgovernment. The news isnt good everywhere recent years. I In the San Francisco Bay area, cleaning them up," says Madigan. down on the sale of pseudoephedrine THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - . d emergency room visits leveled off in 2006, after peaking the previous two years. Decline in meth use has been particularly notable among gay men, following efforts in their community to spread the word about the drug's ill effects, says John Newmeyer, who heads San Francisy co's Free Clinics. In addition to causing paranoid, aggres- -' sive behavior, meth is known for its harsh physical effects from sunken frames to teeth eyes and bone-thimeth-relate- meth-relate- Haight-Ashbur- meth-relate- n meth-relate- d African-American- "mom-and-po- p mom-and-po- p ', |