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Show WATER STORAGE ' BELOW NORMAL In Ten Year Period Precipitation Lowest Though 1944 water supply fore-1 casts for northern Utah will not I be available until after April 1, "present conditions indicate a water shortage which may be as severe as that experienced in 1934," Dean George D. Clyde, irrigation ir-rigation engineer for the Utah Agricultural Experiment station, reported after determining water content of snow cover on Mount Logan watersheds on March 1. "February precipitation was below be-low normal in Cache Valley," he v.; said, "and it remained unusually cold on the high watersheds with much sub-normal precipitation. precipita-tion. If the precipitation during March is as much as normal, a potential water shortage of 20 to 30 per cent still will exist." "There was- little low snow cover on the watersheds March 1, and little will accumulate during March," he predicted. "Therefore, ' there probably will be no high spring flow from the watersheds of Northern Utah this year." Water content of snow cover on Mount Logan March 1, according to the monthly report, was 6.3, 10.5, and 10.9 inches, respectively, ' at elevations of 7000, 8U00 and 9000 feet. Last year on March 1, water content at the respective elevations was 16.5, 30.2 and 34.5 inches. The March 1 average fro-3943 fro-3943 rt (he S?,rr. tic. . -!oi been 12.;, 19 and 28.18 inches. Thus, accumulated snow cover this year on March 1 is 46.4, 35.3 and 41.6 per cent below average at the respective elevations. The average accumulation of moisture during March is only 6.6, 21.2 and 20.3 per cent of the average April "i 1 accumulation at these eleva- tions. - . Snow cover and water inches for the three elevations, compared to 1934 witvf 1944 figures h?ted second, follows: 28 and 28 inches' snow; 6.5 and 6.3 inches water; 44.7 and 44.9 inches snow; 10.2 and 10.5 inches water; 51 and 43.9 inches snow; 12.7 and 10.9 inches water. |
