Show TWO DAY STORM BRINGS MUCH NEEDED MOISTURE the storms which came on monday and tuesday of this week and which were accompanied by quite a bit of hail brought a little more than half an inch of moisture to this city according to scott mitchell who has charge of the local weather station after several light showers on monday it settled down to a hard downpour about which lasted for about half an hour and which brought about 45 of an inch of water light showers the next day here in the city brought us another 10 of an inch while the farms in the pump well district of the valley received quite a bit more in two storms which went across the north end of the valley that day the weather before that had been cold and windy and very unfavorable to growing crops and sheared and lambing sheep in fact the temperature pera ture had dropped down below freezing many nights of the previous two weeks |