The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-11
ELKS RUN INTO RAINSTORh
Nearly an Inch and a Half Record
of Precipitation at Los Angeles
for Early Morning.

ne llttG tfdiniOdQS OF ElkS VINO lett
salt Lake Saturday night for Los An
geles ran into a rainstOrm of no mean
proportions, if The records of the weather
service are TO be believed, and there seems
TO be no good reason why they should
rot be. The local office was advised yes
terday forenoon that LA inches of rain
had fallen in Los Angeles and that there
mad been light frost. The thermometer
at Los Angeles showed a maximum of 81
and a minimum of A. as stated i'm the
telegraphic reports.
Monday i'm Salt Lake was wet 1t was
Wetter than Sunday had been dry The
rain that fell was of the kind that is
good and wet. if one STAYS in il long
enough. but il was also of the kind that
doesn't measure up in inches very rap
idly in the cups the observer sets ont
to catch il. The total precipitation i'm
Salt Lake. according to the meteorological
report for Monday uD to s o'clock was
only six-one-hundredths of an inch, but
there are any number of people who are
willing to take the stand and swear that
the precipitation must have been at least
a foot. The drizzle continued throughout
the day and late at night il was still
raining and trying by fits and starts to
snow.
The maximum temperature for the day
was a above and the minimum 50. the
coolest being recorded at o'clock in the
evening.
The prediction for Tuesday is that the
weather will be generally fair so that
those who have faith in the predictions
las at home this morning
Mortified. Vt. reported the coolest
weather yesterday, with a minimum of IS
below and above. 1t was zero at Scran-
ton, and the next coolest place on the
map was HaVre. in Montana where it
was 4 above. Aside from these stations
the reports indicated generally higher
temperatures. AsheViile had a snowstorm
and temperatures of p and 81 New York
had SeaSOnable weather with a maxi
mum mum OF y and minimum of TO- At
Washington it was a above for high and
Z above for low. San Francisco showed
. as a maximum and A as the minimum
Portland was ~ and 40 The bureau's
comment on weather conditions is:
A trough of low barometric pressure
EXTENDED over the plateau this morning
attended by rain or snow over portions
of California, Arizona. Nevada, Utah Or
egon. Washington and British Columbia
heavy rainfall occurred at Los Angeles
L4 inches, and light frost Rain or snow
was reported over portions of the Mis-
slsSlppi valley, upper Lake region anG
South Atlantic states. with rain at Char
lesion and snow at Asheville. High pres
sure extended over the North Pacific and
North Atantic states. Zero weather was
reported over Vermont The low pres
sure over this section will cause rain or
snow and colder tonight. followed by gen.
saws:
Temperature at p. m. So: maximum
temperature. "a; minimum temperature.
%, mean temperature 40. which is s de-
grees above normal. Total excess of tenn
DeratuTe since the first Of the month
30 degrees; accumulated excess of temDer-
AZURE since January /. 100 degrees. To-
tai precipitation. .O6 inch; total precinita-
ton since first of month % inch. which
Is 30 inch below normal Accommodates
deficiency since January % inches
helatNe humidity at 8 D. m. 9S per cent