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Show June Was Wettest Since Year 1925 June, 1911, was the wettest June since 1925, according to a map of distribution of precipitation precipita-tion in L'tah released Tuesday by the I'. S. department of commerce weather bureau at Salt Lake City. The report was bused on 91 stations sta-tions having longtime normals. 1 reliminaiy average for the month of June for the state as a whole, based on lL'S reporting stations, sta-tions, was 1.70 inches. This is 1.13 inches above normal, or 29S per cent oT normal. In announcing that the month was the wettest June since 1925, the weather bureau disclosed that the 1925 June average was 1.9S ir.ch.es for the state. The persistent rains of early June, occurring mainly between June 4 and 10. descended upon already al-ready moist ground caused by above normal antecedent precipitation precipi-tation and melting snow, the weather bureau noted. This replenished re-plenished the ground water supply sup-ply and gave additional water content and depth to existing snow cover. Heaviest amounts fell on June 7 to 9 at most stations, with considerable con-siderable accumulation of snow above $000 feet elevation in the Wasatch and Uintah ranges and the Wasatch plateau. On June 9. Silver lake I Brighton! reported 0 inches of snow on the ground and the Great Basin experiment experi-ment station in Sanpete county reported 12 inches of snow, both stations teing at approximately $700 feet elevation. Thompson, in Grand county, with 2.64 inches, had Soil per cent of normal, and Loa, Wayne county, coun-ty, with 2.07 inches, had t"'.0 per cent normal. Silver lake had a month's precipitation total of 4.53 inches. The weather bureau noted that a great number of smaller tributary tribu-tary streams and drainage basins, usually dry at this season, began flowing again or continued to discharge dis-charge during most of June. The anticipated Bear lake pumping requirement to maintain supply in Bear river was postponed to near the end of the month due to the unusual run-off from early June rains. The map. prepared under the direction of J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist, meteor-ologist, showed that Fish lake was in an area where precipitation precipita-tion for the month was 500 per cent of normal. Beaver county is shown by the map to have had from 150 per cent to 300 per cent of normal for the month of June with total precipitation pre-cipitation for Milford of .33 of an inch, and 1.12 inches at Beaver. |