Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-01-22 | Page 19 | Weather Records Set in Northwest

WEATHER RECORDS SET IN NORTHWEST SOUTH BEND, Wash., Jan. 21. Two new weather records woro established estab-lished in southwest Washington in 1921. This section had tho wettest year on record and the wind attained a record velocity during the year. The rainfall here was 117.65 inches, or - l-l! Inches lets than ten feet. The record wind came on January 29. 1921. when the recording instruments at North Head registered 132 miles an hour before they wero destroyed by tho gale. It Is estimated the storm attained at-tained a 160-mile velocity. It was this hftmo gale which blew down millions of feet of standing timber in the Olym-pttt Olym-pttt peninsula. oo