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Show BAD WEATHER I HOTALL GONE Unsettled and Probably Snow Is Report of Federal Bureau After a two-day burst of spring-like weather which gave every indication of being permanent, the weather prog-nostigator prog-nostigator again came forth with a message of-gloom yesterday and predicted, pre-dicted, "unsettled and probably snow tonight and Sunday, little change in temperature.'' The report, which came by telegraph, was hailed with outbursts out-bursts of anything but joy by tho city employes, tho only redeeming feature being in the hope that the weather man might once more have made a mistake. The stormy arid unsettled weather this spring has not been a record-breaker record-breaker although, tlie present season is unusually backward, according to an announcement mado yesterday by J. Cecil Alter, director of the Salt Lake weather bureau. "The season is about two weeks late," Mr. Al tretasted l?-f'"- rdluurl late." Mr. Alter stated in his report, "and, being a season when livestock feed is extremely short and added to a winter which began unusually early, it seems to bo very much more retarded. However, a number of spring seasons have- been colder and lator than the present one." , "The accumulated temperature defi- clency from March 1 to date amounts to 210 degrees this season, but in 1893 it was 227 degrees for the same period, in 1897 313 degrees and in 1917, the coldest spring on record, it was 363 degrees, for direct comparison. In 1893 both May and June were abnormally ab-normally cold, making tho season extremely ex-tremely backward as a whole. On the other hand, May in 1897, was a very warm month, and rapid growth of all vegetation resulted.'' nn |