Show Ephraim Hit Hard By Snow Cold Max Min Mm Feb 19 38 22 20 33 26 09 21 33 33 21 22 2239 39 18 23 34 22 11 26 19 42 25 5 30 14 05 26 20 This amount had fallen up tc noon noon when the chart was wasi i changed change Total February ary precipitation tion up to noon Monday was inches which is a bit be below below below be- be low the record of inches which fell in February 1936 Precipitation by dates was reported as follows 12 41 21 06 39 and 95 09 11 42 05 and 20 up to noon on the That makes a II total of inches for the month Moisture content of the early morning storm of th the is surprising Snow depth in town was 4 to 5 inches and it was wet and f heavy peavy eavy The snow plow was out to clear the sidewalks and Ted Petersen operator said Its sure some heavy stuff this morning That was the the opinion of folks out shoveling shoveling sho sho- shoveling paths that it was was some of the wettest heaviest snow handled this season J. J H. H Jensen reports that George Allred who cleared the road up tip to the lower power plant said it was almot like pushing pushing pushing push push- ing water off the road the snow was so heavy Yet only 09 inch of precipitation was recorded at the Field measuring station The station at Manti recorded 20 inch in that storm according to Leslie J. J Anderson Anderson a tal of inches measured at the Manti station the wettest wettest wettest wet wet- test February ever recorded in the 52 years records have been kept there The previous high was in 1936 when inches were were measured during February His daily record for the past month shows Feb 7 trace 8 8 33 9 54 12 56 13 T 14 T 15 15 06 16 62 17 21 18 18 05 20 20 21 01 23 23 13 24 67 25 13 26 26 21 a total of inches Mr Anderson takes takes' the measurements each afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon at The chart at atthe the Ephraim station is read read once a week The temperature really took tooka a nosedive Monday night and sank to a low of 16 below zero by Tu Tuesday morning as measured b by the thermometer at the City Power Plant back backof backof back of the swimming pool Sometime Sometime Sometime Some Some- time during Tuesday night or Wednesday morning it sank even farther to 20 below zero A slight warming trend was r noted Wednesday as cloudiness cloudiness cloudiness ness ness Increased forerunner of more storm according to broadcast weather reports The city thermometer dropped to 23 below zero once during January and was 19 below belo on n two other nights |