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Show ' m' ro w"V"w yYt'nwtyfwvf't vy w wu"trr,wv Weather vyryowrvv yyyyyvyyvtnfyyrf V"Vyyyyy'iryTy,r'v 8, 1969 DESERET w Price Iffecfiv', . at Aft 3 Stare 110--J OPEM DAILY 10- - g5 NEWS, Wednesday, January WED.;THUR5., FRI., SAT. .. . V' For 1968 , " t ' ' vsVyV v Vv' By MAXINE MARTZ , Deseret News Staff Writer Salt Lake Citys weather during 1968 wasnt too spectacular, but it had its moments. ' For example, on Aug. 14 a tunnel cloud danced through the downtown area breaking plate-glas- s windows and cutting, a few people with flying flash. It rained and snowed enough during the year to set a new precipitation record of 21.lt inches. This was for the calendar year, not the water year, which runs from Oct. 1 to Oct. 1 each year. Previous calendar-yea- r record was 18.79 inches in 1941. Another record was set when August precipitation totaled 3.66 indies. The previous August record was 3.28 inches in 1945. The greatest. TREMENDOUS SELECTION HEN'S DRESS SLACKS Our Reg. 5.98 24-ho- precipitation was 1.15 indies ml Oct. 14 and 15, but'this fell far short of the record of 241 Inches on April 22-2- ' - 4 Days Only icks in assort-- n Penna-Press- jj stay sharp. In sizes 28 to 42 waist. Charge It! ; ' ed colors. Slacks 1957. , . . of 1S68 be- i" The last month came the second snowiest December (hi record with 33.3 Inches of snow, just one inch e short of the record of 34.3 in December, 1948. Total snowfall for the year was 85 inches, compared with 90.4 indies in 1967, and the all-tirecord snowfall of 99.5 indies in 1952. ' The greatest snowfall in 24 hours was 9.5 inches on Dec. 11, and the greatest depth of snow on the ground at the Salt Lake Airport weather station was 9 Inches that same day. The record snowfall at the airport is 15.4 inches in March 1944, and the greatest depth of snow on the ground is 23 inches in January .V.'.: i '! : - MENS AND BOYS DEPT. all-tim- Tliese Savings ur 13-1- 1949. from (mart's Men's & Boys) The ' greatest number of days with one inch or more of snow on the ground during the year was 28 days in December. But this cant hold a candle to the record number of consecutive days of one inch pr more of snow on the ground 82 .days 'between Dec. 9, 1931, and Feb'. 28, 1933. Last yecrhad 44 days with one inch or more of snow on the ground. The record is 84 days in 1964.. Salt Lake City had its share of wind during the year. The fastest wind was 54 miles an hour on May 5, with the greatest peak gust at 62 mph the same day. . Salt Lake Weather Bureau records show the greatest gust was 94 miles an hour on June 3, 1963, with the fastest steady wind 71 miles an hour m March 10, 1951 Hie highest temperature of die year was 102 on . July 19 and the. lowest was zero on Jan. 7 and 13. : July, also took honors as wannest month of the year with a mean temperature of 78.3, and January was coldest with, a mean temperature of : 24.5. Dept. Vhcro You JusfSa y Chargo It Orlon'Pile Lined . RAINCOATS , Our I lif. 23. 77. r-- 4 Days Chary ft : Men s; tailored raincoats Dacron . polyestercotton. Orion acrylFeatures 'zip-ou- t ic pile lining, sleeve liner. Broken sizes.' w ' . Work Delay t 9 . x 1 DuroutVM Advised For Jordan "Me. S AND BOYS llEPT.' jt DtMrtt New WtshliMrtot Burdii - WASHINGTON ' Jordan River work, estimated to cost 31 million, has been held up so that Army Engineers can rework project costs and benefits on the basis of recently in- creased interest rates. Rep. Sherman P. Lloyd, was advised by the Corps of Engineers district office in Sacramento that Jordan River plans will not be ready for submission to the Corps division engineer until late spring. February had been the target date for submission to the division engineer, which is the first of several administrative steps each project must hurdle before being sent to Congress for authorisation, Rep. Lloyd that tin.stable has now been set Ijack." iRep. Lloyd said that when the proposed plans are completed, they will be submitted for approval by the division engineer at San Francisco, the Foard of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, the Chief of Engof the ineers, and the Secretary ConArmy before being sent to omnian in inclusion for gress bus public works authorization bill. The congressman said it was uncertain now whether the of eipublic works committees would ther the House or Senate consider an omnibus bill in 1969. 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