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Show December storms up 1972 rainfall to a record high With the end of December, Clayton Rasmussen (home from and 18-day visit with his children in Utah County) calls to tell us that moisture fall for his station during the month of December totaled 1.71 inches This came in two storms, the one early in the month, and the one which came last Thursday and Friday. Fri-day. In this one, which brought over 12 Inches of snow, .60 of an inch came on seven inches on Dec. 28 and .22 of an inch on the 29. This storm also caused the thermometers In the area to go way down. 3 below zero on Sunday and 4 below on Monday morning. The Tuesday morning reading was also in the below zero category. The 1.71 inches of moisture which came in December, added ad-ded to the 5.10 Inches that came to our area in October and November, brought the total to-tal for the three month period per-iod to 6.81 inches. This is over one-half of our annual rainfall rain-fall coming to us in just one-fourth one-fourth of the moisture year. |