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Show i WEEKLY REFLEX DAVIS NEWS JOURNAL, MAY 4, 1978 P'M ?; v A: ' . S' if Irjyf- 'Wf 4 m- ?$ St - - 0 y t i.lLW'' 4& ,r, 1 r yyi V It ?- 1 ' A 4 ? I i e 4 j i i j! I Vn: 1 1 14 r vr ! 4 J WEATHER DEVICES By ROSELYN KIRK BOUNTIFUL Mark Eubank, KUTV meteorologist and weatherman and his wife Jean looked at location around the Salt Lake Valley for three years before they found the perfect spot of their home and Marks weather station on the east bench m Bountiful. Mark was looking for a spot with interesting weather. MARK SAID he has been interested in weather as long as he can remember. He is a meteorologist first and a television personality second. I just love any kind of weather. The more changeable and the more extreme, the more I like it. He said from the spot high on the hill, he can watch storms come across the lake. On Monday morning during the interview, Mark pointed out a storm that was moving across the lake, picking up moisture. Sometimes he gets up at night and watches the storms, especially from the bedroom window. Jean admits she watches weather too. "It sort of rubs off on you, she said. "Its contagious PRIOR TO moving to Bountiful three years ago, the Eubanks had lived in a subdivision m the Salt Lake City area, but were looking for an acre higher up on the mountain where Mark could watch the weather. They ended up buying 7!2 acres high on the Bountiful bench where they can have fruit trees and a garden, in addition to a weather station. Mark measures and logs weather conditions every day, recording snow, rain, wind and other climatic conditions. He charts the weather each night about midnight and keeps a record which goes to the state climatologist. Though the weather station and measuring devices for rain and snow are outside, Mark has all the controls for measuring weather remoted into the kitchen of the house. THERE HE can record the barometric pressure, the wind speed and direction, the rainfall and the temperature Mark said, "I like electronics so I rigged up the devices. Since Mark spends a lot of time in the kitchen with his family of seven children, he decided that the kitchen was a good spot for the indoor monitors. He tinkered with some of the instruments with a friend who helped him to put the system together. Outside, the thermometer readings, which are recorded on the remote devices in the kitchen, are available from thermometers located on a white weather box. The automatic ram gauge, which also records on the instruments inside, and the manual gauge are located near the weather box. The other measuring device is a snow stake which looks something like a croquet peg with black marks to measure the snow depth. IN THE three years that Mark has been gauging snow at the weather station, the snow has measured about 100 inches cortea ing the season. This year so far Mark measured only 96 inches of snow a... predicts that the last snow, called the "Dewena by the Indians, has not yet fallen. Mark, who first came to Salt Lake City from California, said he first heard of the Dewena from a caller. Every year since he has watched for the big spring snow On Monday the snow measured three inches at his weather station, but Mark said he didnt think the fruit trees had been hurt. The temperature had reached 30 degrees but this was only enough to touch the leaves and would not injure the fruit until the temperature deops to 29 dedegrees. At 22 degrees the fruit is stroyed, he said AF ftK MARK and Jean nad picked their home site m an area where a lot ol snow and wind blew out of Ward Canyon, The devises for measuring rain, snow and wind are outside, but controls are remoted into Mark and Jean Eubanks kitchen where Mark has put the instruments together in a control panel located above the refrigerator in their kitchen. they took the precaution of anchoring down the roof on the house. When the wind comes from the south there is a storm approaching, Mark said, but when the shift is to the northwest, the storm is The Utah State Coalition of THE person chosen for this position will join the Senior Coalition staff to help solve MARK POINTED out that he is a meteorologist and television is only the medium he uses to get across his message. In addition to working weather news on television, Mark also owns a weather company with contracts with 12 radio stations in several states, including Montana, Oregon and California, to provide a daily weather report, sometimes two. This company with a staff of four is housed in the same building as Channel 2. The morning weather broadcasts are produced In Marks study at home. There to he uses a programmed for provide weather projections surrounding areas based on yearly averages. HE CALLS each radio station for which he provides the forecast on the telephone. The station tapes the weather message and then plays it over the air at the scheduled time. He begins work on the tapes and finishes about 8 a m. On Monday and Friday he completes administrative work until about 4 p.m. when he prepares for the weathercast on Channel 2 at 6 p m. After the weather spot, Mark comes home to spend about two hours with his seven children who range in age from four weeks to 14 years. Sharon, 14, takes weather readings from the weather devices and reports the readings to her father when he calls from the station. Later in the evening Mark returns to ap' pear on the 10 p m. news. MARK SAID although some people tend to blame the weatherman for the weather, most do so only in a kidding way. "They know that weather is not an exact science and we do our best, he said Although Mark graduated in meteorology from the University of Utah m 1972, he was already working as a weatherman on Channel 2 when he graduated. He had prior experience as a weatherman in Redding, Calif., where he had lived prior to coming to Salt Lake City. He and Jean are both California natives Mark still does radio weather reports for the Redding, California sta- 1 THE AREA where the Eubanks house is located is just under 5,000 feet, but the clouds that cross the lake and then are lifted high into the mountains, often release a lot of moisture. Mark says that Bountiful Golf Course is the recipient of more rain and snow than his area, but outside of that area and the Olympus Cove area in Salt Lake City the Eubank weather station records more rain and snow than any other weather station along the Wasatch Front, not including the high mountain area Mark said he has kept weather records continuously since 1955 His interest in weather first began when his friend had a cloud chart "I guess Ive always been a nut about the weather, he said volunteer under the statewide CiAction Program-Seni- or tizens Project. He or she will help to train other seniors as volunteers and teach them how to work towards solving problems they face as a group. age housing, senior legal discrimination, representation, health inand elderly surance, employment. The senior citizen advocate will be employed as a VISTA tion skills, leadership quali must also have decisionmaking skills, communica- i v V i ties, organizational skills, and the ability to work independently with a minimal amount of supervision Formal educational are not requirements anywhere near as important as life experience for this position To apply, either call Tim Funk or Cheryl Grana collect at or or write to the Utah State Coalition of Senior Citizens, 306 E. 100 South, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111. UCSCS is an equal opportunity employer. 359-970- 359-971- Mark shares his interest in weather with his family The seven family members, ranging in age from 14 to four weeks, watch the instrument panel and report when Mark calls home from the station to request weather information from the Bountiful weather station. Here Kevin asks his father a weather question FAMILY INTEREST If WEATHER By ROSELYN KIRK the decision of our Notice of Intent not to refund for a - FARMINGTON Funding for another five months has been granted to the Davis County Community Action Program (CAP) organization while federal officials monitor the functioning of the organization. THE LETTER notifying the county of this action was received by Commissioner C. E. Moss on April 26, just four days before the Community Services tion. THIS PERSON must have a desire to help others and a true interest in working with groups and in getting desired goals accomplished. He or she problems with utility rates, ,e-- quieting down. The west wind brings clouds and snow down from the mountain. If the Eubank family wasn't prepared for snow at first, they learned quickly since the year they dug their basement, it snowed ever 27 .r.ches in one night. Mark said he has walked up the hill to his home several nights. Even though his truck has a snowplow blade, he couldnt make it. One night he got stuck in the parking lot at Channel 2 and had to spend the night on a couch at the station, missing one of the biggest storms of the year recorded at his weather station. Seniors Seek Senior Senior Citizens is seeking a committed and active senior citizen to work on aging issues in Davis County. CHECKING THERMOMETER Thermometer readings are reeordi d in the u at la i stain h m tion in Mark Eubanks backyard on the t Bountiful. The KUTV weatherman measures and lug-- , weather conditions every day, recording snow, r mi vs md and other clunatic conditions. Administration (CSA) funding ran out. Robert Smith, assistant director for Community Ac- tion in Washington D C. said, "I have decided to postpone Energy-wis- e period of five months. their funding. That hearing was conducted by David E. Venderburgh, director of the Denver office on Feb. 28. THE FIVE month grant, which will commence on May 1, will contain special conditions requiring Davis CAP to MR. SMITH said his decision to allow the interim was based on Mr. Vander- complimented CAP officials on their plans for corrective progress complete various actions within a specific timetable the letter said. The letter action. The letter from Mr. Smith was a response to a request for continued funding submitted after a hearing conducted by officials from the CSA regional office in Denver, to show cause why the agency should not lose it will I burgh's recommendation have concluded that the CAP for Davis County is making Mr Smith said. The plans identified the responsibility of the CAP administrative board, the governing board and the role of the director The documents submitted also included an affirmative action plan and a revised accounting system THE LOCAL CAP agency satisfying the raised by the currently receives about plans sent to the Denver office in March The decision on final funding will be delayed until after the five month trial period. funding According to Mr. Smith, the Denver office, including Mr in concerns Denver office. Mr. Smith said that office will monitor closely the actions taken to implement the corrective year from the CSA Davis County Commission was first notified on Dec 22 that the local CAP agency was in danger of losing the federal $80,000 a and assist you in your'' implementation of corrective-actioCarl Chappell, Davis County CAP direc tor, said the CAP agency will work as" usual to supply programs to satisfy the needs of low in -come people in Davis County The agency will be financed " through September, at which time CAP will again be evaluated, he said Vanderburgh and his staff, "will be available to advise pay you to use a small appliance whenever you can. save energy by o small appliance rather than using your oven or range. Electric skillets, for example, use less energy than a single range unit. So do electric percolators. 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