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Show j October Rainfall i Beats All Records; Milford Gets 3.15 Last month rain and snow-i fall produced the greatest precipi-; tation ever recorded for October, I the monthly report compiled by! the Salt Lake weather bureau ! under the direction of G. K. Groaning, meteorologist, showed Saturday. In fact, the average as computed comput-ed from 133 available station reports re-ports was 3.32 inches, or 299 per cent of the normal 1.11 inches. The previous high October aver-1 age during the 51-year period of record was in 1912, when an average aver-age of 3.17 inches was measured. Analysis of the Utah state precipitation pre-cipitation map for the month of October shows Milford and Min-ersville Min-ersville to have been at the east boundary of a belt of 3.15 inches of j precipitation, or 400 of normal for the month. That belt' is shown! to have embraced all the west "part j of Beaver county, and merging' into a. 450 belt, which included! the southwest corner of Beaver county and the northwest corner of Iron county. Beaver and Black Rock are shown to have been in a 300 area, which also included most of Millard county, though Deseret and Delta are shown to have been in a smill 200 circle. lOnly in the extreme northwest corner of the state, near the stations sta-tions of Standrod and Park. Valley Val-ley in Box Elder counity, did Jupiter Pluvius fail in his duty. This area has less than one-half of its normal moisture. Salt Lake City and vicinity had 2.84 inches or 197 per cent of normal; Ogden had 3.46 inches or 216 per cent; Provo, 3.43 inches or 232 per cent; Logan, 2.75 inches or 164 per cent, and Brigham City, 3.89 inches or 234 per cent. Standrod with only .51 of an inch, or 36 per cent of normal, the state's dryest spot, stands in sharp contrast' with Loa in Wayne county, which had 4.37 inches or 1093 per cent, 10 limes normal. Topping all sections was- Clear Creek, with an elevation of 8303 feet in the western end of Carbon county with 7.66 inches. Alta had 6.23 inches; Monticello 6.22 inches and Gooseberry ranger station 6.10 inches. Valley points that had record-breaking record-breaking totals were Escalante, 5.49 inches; New Harmony, 5.15 inches; Thompsons, 4.90 inches; iSantaquin, 4.68 inches, and Fillmore, Fill-more, 4.34 inches. (General distribution in the two climatic divisions showed that the northwestern or Great Basin division, divi-sion, had 3.01 inches or 247 pet-cent pet-cent of normal and for the southern south-ern and eastern or the Colorado river basin division, 3.69 inches or 401 per cent of normal. "Precipitation in the form of snow in the higher elevations prevented pre-vented excessive runoff in mountain moun-tain streams and added to natural early season storage reserves begun be-gun in September", the report said. "At Silver lake (Brighton), 8750 feet in Wasatch mountains, a total of 39 inches of snow fell last month. The weather bureau noted that despite the many records broken there were no unusual downpours. "For instance, at Clear creek, where the gratest monthly total was measured, the greatest 24-hour 24-hour amount was only 1.30 inches." the record showed. "However, "How-ever, steady rains October 12 to 14 in the vicinity of Cisco caused damacre to railroad structures. i "The record precipitation for this month was caused by storms which developed over the northern area of the Pacific ocean and which moved southeasterly and inland with more than usual rapidity rapid-ity for this time of the year. An increased circulation of the atmosphere at-mosphere of the northern hemisphere hemi-sphere as indicated by a computed factor called by the meteorologists the 'zonal index', is believed to be a fundamental cause of the persistent per-sistent storm activity at this time. "Thus, in part due to increased frequency of storm movement, the aggregate amount of resultant precipitation was more than during dur-ing any previous October. In further fur-ther explanation, it should be noted that most of the moisture released over Utah was of tropical oriein, but which was influenced by cool, polar air behind the active frontal lines of the storms. These polar air masses underran and lifted the moist, warmer air, causing caus-ing prolonged and intensified precipitation." |