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Show February Storms Provide Soaking For P.G. Area Two 2-day rain and snow storms soaked the Pleasant Grove area with almost an inch of pure water during the 7-day weather period ending at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 19. The storms began Feb. 13 and called it quits late on Feb. 18. Temperatures also did some fancy acrobatics during the 7 days. Highest was 57 degrees on Feb. 19 and lowest was 16 degrees, Feb. 15. That's a spread of 41 degrees, which should be variation enough to suit any of our younger generation. gen-eration. Farmers and culinary and irrigation ir-rigation water officials were happy at the results of the storms. Both January and February Feb-ruary had been plenty dry until un-til last week's storms hit. Things look brighter now. Skies were cloudy early Tuesday Tues-day morning and a light rain was falling. In fact, it had rained rain-ed most of the morning since midnight. The outside temperature was 44 degrees and the barometer stood at 30.0 and was falling. Continued light rain in the valley val-ley and snow in the mountains, was the forecast. Statistics for the week ending end-ing at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 19: Date High Low Pre. February 13 . . 38 31 0.43 February 14 . . 36 28 0.24 February 15 . . 44 16 0.00 February 16 . . 50 24 0.00 February 17 . . 45 39 0.09 February 18 . . 54 35 0.23 February 19 . . 57 36 0.00 Summary Temperatures: Highest, 57; lowest, 16; Week's averages, high, 46; low, 30; and mean, 38 degrees. Precipitation for the week, 0.99 of an inch. Since Jan. 1, 1.72 inches. Sun rises and sets, locally, at 8:10 a.m. and 5::40 p.m. MST. |