Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-01-20
WEATHER BUREAU.
Monthly Review OF the Utah Weather
Service for December.

ATMOSPHERIC PREssuRE-The bar.
ometer remained high throughout q
greater part Of the month. On the las
days OF the month the pressure was
especially high. The highest pressure
at Salt Lake City was, reduced to sea.
level, sO.6i5 inches. 1t occurred or
tho s0ih. The lowest pressure wa,
29.79O inches on the LIST.
TEMPERATURE-The month wal
several degrees colder than the averag,
December, and in some localities the
cold was severe. The average for tn,
Territory, from twenty-one stations,
was Twenty-Five degrees. Moab had
the highest average, BILL. No report
was received from Washington cou nty,
naturally tho warmest part OF the
Territory.
Grouse Creek reported an average OF
1876; Manti, 1870; Levan, 2l.l. SEQ.
field Is naturally the coolest station, on
account Of ia high elevation, but ow.
ing to the observers sickness, reports
frsm the first seventeen days only
were received, and no true averages
could be deduced. The weather in ID Q
Sanpete valley appears TO have been
unusually severe. Loa, Wayne coun.
ty, reported the lowest temperature, 10
below zero on the 18th; Moab the
highest, 90 above on tine lst. Lon, and
also Logan, had an extreme monthly
range OF 72 degrees. Tho month was
much colder than the average up to
the 23rd; alter that 1t run o few de.
grees above the average.
PREcrPITATIoN.-Th early part Of
the month had M abundant snowfall,
There has been much more than tho
usual amount Of sleighing Ia the Ter.
ritory. Owing 10 the cold days, the
snow remained on the ground well
until a few days before Christina,
Rain occurred In several localities on
the warm days from the oath to the
9Th. At Heber ten inches Of snow
fell on the 9th, and four inches on the
following day. Twenty inches OF snow
fell there during the month, besides an
inch and half OF rain. Next to this
Lake Park had the greatest precipita.
ton, 1853 inches. In Garfield, Wayne
and Grand counties, the precipitation
was scanty; Loa reported 0.25; Losee
0.2O; Moab O.4l; Rich6eld 0.27.
The snow-protected fall crops well
until the warm spell, beginning with
the cath; ut the end OF the month the
ground was generally bare, which IA
regarded as untavorable for fall crops.
GEORGE N. SALISBURY,
u. 3. Weather Bureau,
Director Utah Weather Service.
SALT LAKE CRY, Utah. Jan. 18th,
1893.
oDsERvER's NOTES.
CASTLE GATE.--An exceptionally
ciouuy monlb,, sixteen cloudy,
nine partially cloudy anu six clear
days.
LEvAN,-There was enough snow on
The ground to protect crops up TO the
14th, when rain storm lasting OIL and
On for three days took IL all oil. A
drifting snow storm on the Goth lasting
only two hours, aud In which l.b
inches fell; all gone now. consider IL
lnfavorabie for fall crops.
Losee-There has been two inches of
this month; the ground at the
,nd Of month IL dry aud dusty.
Provo-Heavy snow on the 9th, do.
ing much damage to telephone wires
aud trees.
Parowan--Snow not deep enough to
crops very much. However,
lut little fall grain is ever sown In this
neigh borhOod.
Richfeld-The first ten days were |
pleasant; then the thermometer went
below zero every night until the 18th.
Rather pleasant for this season Of the |
PEAR ever since.
Stockton--rhe earliest winter in
ourteen years.
Thistle--A heavy snowstorm on the |
tn and 9th.