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Show Snow Storm Leaves Higher Water Levels The snow storm which hit this area Saturday evenir.j and continued con-tinued through Monday, made a substantial contribution to the moisture fall for the Parowan Valley states Clayton Rasmussen, who states that the three-day storm brought a total of 14 inches inch-es of snow containing .91 of an inch of molsure. This, added to the 1.67 which had already been measured at the local station in February, brought the total for the month to 2.58.. and the total for the five-month period, Oct. 1, 1961 to the end of February, 1962, to 5.55 inches. During the same period per-iod of 1960-61 moisture fall here was 3.99 Inches Mr. Rasmussen states. i And with the new storm, came another spell of sub-zero weather weath-er to the area with the readings here being 5 below on Tuesday morning and 12 below zero on Wednesday morning. The reading at the Gurr Farms in the lower Parowan Valley was 21 below on Tuesday morning, we are told. ' Ralph Orton accompanied Iceland Ice-land Carlson of the Cedar City office of the Soil Conservation Service, to take measurements of snow and water content at the Yankee and Bowery Valley on Monday. Mr. Orton states that Mr. Carlson had the official figures fig-ures and was to report them to this paper along with reports from the other snow courses in the area. Unofficial readings at the Yankee, Yan-kee, according to Orton were 44 inches of snow containing 9.6 Inches In-ches oi moisture. The reading at Ed Ward Flat was 31.4 inches, containing 7.4 inches of water, we understand. |