Show WEATHER BUREAU I 1 atmospheric PRESS UREThe the asis ometer remained high throughout j greater part of the mouth month on the jai it dayson days of the month the pressure ww wo especially high the highest sit at salt lake city WM wits reduced to eelco level inches it occurred os oft the the lowest pressure w inches on the lot temperature the month w several everal degrees colder than the average december and in some localities the ibe obad ald was severe the average for atie territory from twenty one oue stations was twenty five degrees mi ab had be highest average no report was wag received from washington county naturally the warmest part of the territory grouse creek reported an average of mantl 18 6 levau scofield is naturally the coldest stati onon account of its high elevation but owing to the observers observe vs sickness sio bueB reports akim the first seventeen days only were received and no true averages amold tie be deduced the weather in the valley appears to have been unusually severe loa wayne coun ty reported the lowest temperature 19 below zero en an the moab the he obest 66 above on the lot loa and AW fao logan had bad an extreme monthly image of 72 degrees the mouth was colder thau than the average up to the me after that it run a few degrees above the average the early part of the mouth month had bad an abundant snowfall there them has bae been much more than the usual mount of aleigh sleighing ing ij ia the territory ory owing to the cold days the remained on the ground well until a few days before christmas skin bain occurred in several localities on tee warm days from the to the jyh at heber ten inches of snow aalon foil on the jtb and four inches on the following day twenty inches of snow idl there during the mouth month besides beside san an bob and a hall half of rain next to this lake ke park ark had the greatest preci pita inches in garfield wayne OW wt grand counties trie precipitation poso IF scanty minty los reported losee wi w 0 moat moab richfield bibb field te snow protected fall crops well bmw tale warm spell beginning with f at the end of the mouth the amad was generally bare which is mcarden as unfavorable for fall crops N BALI BURY U J 8 reamer bureau director utah weather service SALT LAKE CITY utah jan 1898 OBSERVERS MOTES an exceptionally mont sixteen clou ly ij MID ine partially cloudy and six clear days dars lailan there was waa enough snow on U toe ground to protect project crops up to tile the fifth when ft a rain storm lasting off find and oa 00 for three days took it all off A drifting snow storm on the 29 ih lasting inking only two hours and iu in which 16 blnche foll fell all gole goi e now I 1 cin oj sider it unfavorable for fall crops Lose eThere there has been two inches binche of now tall this month the ground at the fad fid of month is dry and dusty provo prove heavy snow on the ath do lug ing much damage to telephone wires ald aid trees parowan carowan snow not deep ah h to benefit crops very much however but little fall grain it 1 ever sown in this neighborhood bibb field the first ten days were bleam pleasant mint then the thera thermometer ometer went below W zero every night until the bather pleasant for this season of the year jear ever since stockton the earliest winter in fourteen years thistle A heavy snowstorm on the ath and ath |