The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-25
PECULIAR BAROMETR|C
CONDITIONS IN ZION
1t Is Extremely Difficult Now
to Make Forecasts of
Weather.

| some very peculiar weather cond;
tlons have prevailed for the mast
twenty-tour hours. The bigh which
formed to the west, and which. for a
time, was so insignificant as to attract
mule attention, developed a sudden
energy which set at naught all of the
calculations which had been made. If
Will be remembered that The Tribune
OF sunday morning gave it as a prob
ability that the high would develop and
come IN between the two lows To the
northwest and southwest and give us
cool, fair period. This is exactly
what occurred, though every one con-
nected with the weather service and
the photographed department of The
Tribune was at loss to explain the
sudden drop of a third of an inch in
the barometer Sunday evening. This
presaged q storm of immense propor.
tlons, but IT did not materialize.
There is no question about the fact
that low pressure field Of unusual
energy occupied the section around the
city of Salt Lake, but this was evil
IDENTIFY driven in some other direction
and was completely broken up by the
highs surrounding. There is no trace
this morning of the low, and the highs
to the east would have prevented il
from moving in that direction, for those
highs have maintained steady posi-
tlon for the past several DAYS AS
was predicted in The Tribune, the high
which had been in possession of the
local field, passed of TO the eastward,
and the western high which developed
so suddenly took possession of this sec
ton.
Salt Lake is now in the grasp of
new field Of high pressure, and lust
how long 1T may last is hard TO fore
tell. The weather bureau predicts a
low which will give showers and cooler
weather for today. but, while this is
possible, it is not nearly so probable
as is an increased high pressure over
this section, an eastward flight of the
high west of here, and clear weather
with moderate temperature. While, of
course, a sudden low pressure might
develop, and give some showers. the
presence of the high to the west, its
natural path being to the eastward,
would make this theory within the
range of possibility only.
No heavy rainfalls or unusual changes
in temperatures have been recorded,
and none is likely for the next twenty
four hours at least. If the low which
comes so near Salt Lake on the south
follows its usual course, it will either
cling 10 the ragged edge of the noun
tain ranges TO the east, giving pre-
cipitations TO the immediate westward
of the divide. or 1t will center over the
section of Grand Junction and Durango,
Colo, and give warmer weather with
precipitations in that section. The
residents of Salt Lake may look for
fair weather today if the Chronological
map is TO be taken rs an authority.
Local Weather Report.
Maximum temperature, 81 degrees; mini
mum tcmpera ture. 80 degrees; mean temper
nturc. 20 degrees. which is degrees above
normal.
Accumulated deficiency Of temperature since
the first OF the month, Is degrees.
Accumulated deficiency OF temperature since
January I. 236 degrees.
Total precipitation from p. IN 60 p. m,
Accumulated excess OF precipitation since
the first OF the month. IT inch
Accumulated excess of precipitation since
January J. 6.29 inches.
Relative humidity at p. M, 80 per cent.