Show CHANGING CLIMATE the heavy storms of the winter almost unprecedented in the amount of moisture precipitated have caused many persons to ask K climate is changing and one answer from 1 noted student of meteorology is in the affirmative A severe winter or a number of winters of heavy snow storms while tending to prove tha a change of climate i occurring does not prove for hiorns r periods are known to follow in cycles there was a summer in europe during which many of the largest rivers became dry but there was a return to normal conditions the following year australia suffered a ten year drouth that killed 75 per cent of the sheep and bankrupted nearly all the farmers but since then there has been the average precipitation received prior to the drouth next summer might be extremely warm and the following year might see the beginning of drouth conditions in utah but there Is ono theory in explanation of this excessive precipitation that is worthy of note the colorado river through a break in its banks has formed an inland sea in the hot desert region of southern california where burning sands existed two years ago there Is now a vast body of water evaporation is rapid and the capora are carried by the prevailing air currents in tho direction of utah there is a desert stretch ed by high mountain ranges extending from the salton sea to the salt lako basin and the first high mountains to catch the clouds and bring down their contents mako up the wasatch range the high winds that sweep over this region once a year and that periodically become something more than zephyrs are supposed to originate in the salton sea region as hot air currents that come up through the low pass way and are deflected by contact with the cold aar currents of the mountains to the east of ogden if the wind theory is correct then there Is reason to believe the present heavy storms are but the natural result of a heretofore desert region over which the air currents move becoming with the evaporated waters of the saltern sea climate would be greatly im proved for farming purposes cu barly dry farming were this condition to become permanent but such a change might increase the size 0 great salt lake to far be yond its shore lines and endanger the permanency of such structures as the ogden luoin cutoff cut off J |