Inter-Mountain Republican | 1908-02-26 | Page 8 | Laughs at Skies in Predicting Weather

LAUGHS AT SKIES IN PREDICTING WEATHER Local Observer Trusts to His Instruments and Says Today Today Today To To- day Will Be Fair It was cloud cloudy all ea day r yesterday o. o until the evening and there was at one onetime onetime onetime time just the slightest trace of rain but Section Director R. R J. J II Hyatt att of the local United States States' weather office k kept pt Insisting that It Jt was fine weather and furthermore that In spite of the threatening appearance of or time the skies it was going to stay fine from froman There is no rain reported an anywhere where west of the Rocky y mountains mountains moun moun- tame he ml said except at Portland and antI the local con conditions there are such that it can bo be counted out of consideration con con- sl when tho the amount Is so small Moreover tho the barometer is high away up around 25 5 3 4 inches IncItes which amounts to 29 4 3 Inches incItes at s-en s ea leveL leviL And then thon there th Is ier very ery r little humidity In the atmosphere the recOrd record record rec rec- ord this morning showing something like liko 50 per pcr cent H Nobody could predict l rain ln un under er such conditions as those See If they are not right Tho The heaviest rainfall reported yesterday yesterday yes yes- S- S morning was was was' 92 92 of an inch at Ol Oklahoma lahoma the tile heaviest heaviest- wind was wasH 44 H miles mile an hour at Helena tho tile highest highest highest high high- est temperature 78 degrees s. s at Yuma an and the lowest minimum temperature 10 degrees below at Northfield An area of high pressure is coming in from the Oregon coast which makes maltes the weather officials all nil the themore themore themore more cocksure of their prediction of fair fall weather in Salt Lal Lake e. e