Show fI f I Increase Utah Rain I A unique weather reporting system being use in various parts of the country including northern Utah holds out the possibility of Increasing precipitation precipitation precipitation pre pre- through cloud seed seed- ing according to Sen Wallace F. F Bennett R A SCIENTIFIC network that reports the weathers weather's pulse at remote sites has been installed at 40 locations in the high mountains of or northeastern Utah as part of a Utah State University University University sity research effort for the Bureau Bureau Bu Bu- reau of Reclamation Researchers Research Research- ers can determine by pushing a button the amount of precipitation 1 tion Uon at the sites I According to the Bureau the I weather stations are located at strategic points in the Wasatch Range and In the east of Salt Lake City Ogden and Logan Three stations are lo located located located lo- lo on isolated desert peaks around the Great Salt Lake SEN BENNETT said The reporting network was installed to help determine precisely the effect of cloud seeding with a silver iodide generator situated atop foot Willard Peak some 40 miles north of SaltI Salt I Lake City I From the project headquarters I at Utah State readings are taken daily from each of I the 40 weather stations and the resul results ts corre correlated wit with h the passage of frontal storms over the mountains These figures will serve as a comparison with readings taken later from seeded storms THE UTAH lawmaker said that according to Dr George Reynolds chief research meteorologist meteorologist meteorologist me me- at preliminary evidence from other areas In Indicates indicates indicates in- in the seeding of winter I storms In high mountain areas offers the best Immediate prospect prospect prospect pros pros- for increasing water run run- off ort Dr Reynolds Indicated that thata a primary goal of the research Is to determine the characteristics of storms that seeding seeding seeding seed seed- are most susceptible to ing and which will yield the greatest return NEXT SU SUMMER IMER at Utah State the team of 16 scientist and technicians technicians technicians tech tech- plan to Install five additional additional additional addi addi- silver Iodide generators on Wasatch Range peaks In addition to the weather station network the researchers research research- ers collect samples of newly fallen snow after the passage of each seeded storm Snow samples are melted and shipped shipped shipped ship ship- ped to laboratories where highly sensitive detectors determine their silver content to help evaluate the effectiveness of the seeding SEN BENNETT said the contract with the Bureau of Reclamation amounts to for the current fiscal year up from during fiscal year 1967 |