Show CLIMATE OF UTAH A pamphlet received from the utah experiment station treats on the he climate of utah being bulletin no jam james dryden it contains a compre benelee discussion onion ir of out our climate and is ia graphically illustrated by charts chart and drawings drawl in addition to giving in detail the weather records at the agricultural college tor for two years yean past it gives summaries of the meteorological conditions for twelve different points in the bbate since the taking 0 observations commenced maxy many yours yean ago there la Is an interesting inter eating discussion on sensible en eible temperature explaining why bok bog weather feel 1 pleasant and cool weather feela hot statistics are presented to show abow wat that the temperature as aa re recorded cordeck in go government goTer ment bubli nations does doea not do justice to th the arid west that in fact the she air temperature to la not at all a sure cure ludi indication of the relative rela rele tire give pleasantness of two localities as aa regard heat beat the to writer states that bat in now new york during one week in the he eummer of 1896 leath deaths occurred irom from BUDS with a mean maximum dally daily temperature of 90 doers degreck cB while a mean maximum temperature at bait lake city of resulted reaul ted in no deatha death irom from that cause the mean sensible eu elble july and august temperature of bait lake city Is about equal to that of winnipeg MaD manitoba hoos bault st marle bud and halifax while el 1 pago texas show aboda a sensible temperature lower than that of the now new york tola this in spite pile of the sup fact that the healt air temperature la tory much i ather at el 1 paso as also albo at SRI bal lake city than a new york thin thia phenomenon la Is explained by the tact that evaporation from toe the surface ot of the body la in so ao much greater in the dry atmosphere of the intermountain region than in the humid regional of the fast bast that bat the actual temperature felt on the surface or of ab he body Is very much lose less because evaporation la Is a cooling process so that the actual sensation of best beat esperi aced by the body la in the temperature of evaporation and this temperature la is obtained by using a wet bulb her dometer mo meter several charts aroused are used to illustrate the facts facia discussed the rainfall in the he arid states kates la in dis die coned on pages 61 51 to 68 53 the average rainfall in the months of may J june u no july and august la Is given for the states of arizona colorado idaho montana Nev nevada adit utah and wyoming the facts are illustrated by dia grama gram and they show a surprising diff drance to in me be amount of moisture ure precipitation in the several states batea colorado la Is shown to have a larger rainfall than either aher of the other states montana has haa the next largest while nevada and utah hive the smallest amal leat the figures are as aa follows follow tor for the four months alizna Ar izna inches colorado 8 14 idaho 3 8 montana nevada 24 viah Wyom Wyo mius lug it is a matter or of importance however to in which of the tour four months the principal part of the moisture moia ture talla falls A ra lofall fall in may or june la worth more than one in august A chart la in added to show this his tact fact from it it to is een that colorado receives most of its ito rain in may and july arizona in july and august montana in june utah rec receives olvas more in may aan in liber either of the other months the question Is me rainfall increasing la Is answered la in the negative records are given for twenty and twenty five years and they reveal DO ground for the belief that the rainfall in increasing to in this state the bulletin will be sent free on OB application to lothar leather foster director dire experiment station logid utah |