Show Snow cover on the head waters waters waters wa wa- of the Price and Huntington Hunting- Hunting ton Rivers and the upper San Pitch River above 1 Mt It Pleasant Peasant varies from 75 to 80 per cent of average Forecast runoff for forthe forthe forthe the Price River near Heiner is set at acre feet This is 61 per cent of average and about about about a- a bout 5 per cent more than the runoff of last year Huntington Creek near Huntington am and Cottonwood Creek near Orangeville Orangeville Orange- Orange ville can expect about 85 to 90 per cent of average flow now To the south snow cover on the watersheds of Ferron Muddy and Creeks above Ferron and Emery drops off to about 70 per cent of average Tributaries of the middle anc and lower River from Ephraim Ephraim Ephraim Eph- Eph raim to Mayfield have a snow cover which is slightly better than a n year ago and is about 70 per cent of oC average A little littleto to the south on Salina Creek snow cover in the vicinity o of Moab 1 and Monticello varies from Crom 80 to 90 per cent of aver nver- age The East Fork of the Sevier River and Escalante R River ver snow pack has increased from 20 to 50 per cent of average since the first of March The current snow pack is about third one-third more than more than it was a 3 year ago On the watersheds of the main Sevier Virgin and Beaver Ri Rivers Rivers Rivers Ri- Ri vers Coal Creek near Cedar City Pine and Chalk Creeks near Fillmore and Clear Creek near Sevier in southern Utah the increase in the during March varied from per cent to per cent of av av- av- av On several snow courses the increase was essentially hallof half hall of an average seasons season's lation The result is that these streams have runoff prospects which are 35 per cent to 50 per percent percent percent cent higher than expected a n month ago Runoff on these streams is now forecast at nt 96 per cent to per cent of the 51 1942 average Elsewhere in inthe inthe inthe the state the increase for March varied from era a average e eto to per cent of average In nearly all nIl parts of the state soil moisture has improved over what it was last fall due to during the warm winter and is now about aver aver- age The runoff forecasts given in inthis inthis inthis this bulletin are based on mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain snow cover and on the as assumption ns- ns that precipitation and temperature during the remainder remain der del of the runoff season will be approximately normal Appreciable Appreciable Appreciable deviations from normal of precipitation and temperature tempera tempera- ture especially during April and May will correspondingly modify these forecasts o 0 |