| Show A TWENTY YEARS RECORD george N fla lisbury in his hie weather report today says REVIEW AND comparison july Julya as awell well as june in utah can usually be depended upon to have several summer showers oh A twenty years record at salt lake city shows an average acerrio of three to four appreciable showers in july and four to five in june but this year was an exception ani for weeke after bho first 01 JULO jaue no rain fell to moisten the parched earth revive the drooping vegetation and gladden the heart of the farmer water for irrigation became scanty and the stock ranges short and dried up ul at last the prolonged drought was broken by heavy showers beginning I 1 in n the south on the and continuing at intervals inter vale forse for several verai days the ralus rains due to the influence of a general torm advancing from the southwest ln in some localities the severe mountain storms effused washouts was wa bouts shouts and canyon flood sIn the extreme north the showers were only slight alight and at the eni en 1 of the mouth month there was still detill a great deficiency af f rain in bux bix elder cache aud and weber counties count iee during the dry spell hut ht winds prevailed and the weather seemed of unusual warmth it was wag not rio do however as aa there have beba several J july which were hotter SUMMARY OF temperature average for the month 27 stations degrees greatest monthly moad mean at cisco chow 2 least at maximum for the mouth month at 8 george minimum 24 at Soon elul greatest mo monthly IM athly ranges ranee 69 at st kat george least 47 at salt lake city generally the and were the hottest days in the eoute the was bottest in the north the uh and were notably cool days SUMMARY OF the average rainfall 27 stations was inches it Is was very unevenly distributed being generally the heaviest in the southern and central sections So scofield ofield reported inches the be greatest of any station cisco only a trace the I 1 set the bulk of the precipitation was was from thunder showers bbowers occurring after the WIND AND WEATHER the prevailing wind was from the southwest and was about the average velocity for july Far farmen meris complain ed of the drying effects of the hot southerly winds the weather was for the mob moat t parc pat clear and sunshiny averail ig 19 but a cloudy days daya the sunshine was wag about abou ta 85 deg of the DOS possible Sible amount SOME REMARKS BY OBSERVERS heber A heavy thunderstorm thunderstorm on 1 the night of the passed over the valley from west to east following the provo river to the north end of taj up u county A beautiful rainbow at nv time 4 richfield drought has haa done joaw damaio to crops the ratia raia of the cje 81 was beneficial as water was scarce it is 18 still greatly needed kai ugie tree I 1 in n the early part of th the mouth month lorest forest fires fire to the west ach southwest st of here this mout months hive pro ant V ib i capitation was very beneficial 9 esdah 4 ally to the ranges f 4 parowan carowan N precipitation from 21 of may until the of july on tha 4 there was a heavy thu wa no damage except some heavy gritt a thrown down much good to t parched dand and thirsty soli soil 1 ind having fallen in 76 to 90 minute minu tee mt carmel there have be several floods in the creeks creeke baug caused d the thu thunder der showers in the mou st george bright aurora at val mild night on the two meteors on letb one of them attended by a I 1 lou explosion explosion |
