The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-23
SILT LIKE EXCELS
ALL COMPETITORS Nv
NOVEMBER WEATHER
Twenty Days of Beautiful Sunshine When Storms Rage In
Other Parts of Country = Prediction is for
Cooler and Showers, Perhaps,

Some folks say that Thanksgiving
wouldn't be Thanksgiving at all if it
weren't a white Thanksgiving. Up in
New England, where all the magazine
stories about Thanksgiving come from,
there is always a setting OF snowstorm
when the folks from over yonder drive
up in a sleigh and shake the flakes from
their comforters and their wraps. Here
white" Thanksgiving IS most ex-
traordinary spectacle; even the Oldest
inhabitant scratches his head twice or
thrice before he can recall the last
Thursday in November when it showed
good and plenty.
There is a ray of hope for those who
are fond of a white Thanksgiving in
the trend of the predictions VoIchsafed
by DR.. Hyatt. He said yesterday that
the night would be partly cloudy, and
Sunday would be the Same. He said
it would be cooler and there might DE
showers. His prediction for Sunday was
right, for a heavy rain started early
yesterday morning and lasted until 2
o'clock, during which time nine-tenths
of an inch of rain fell. which
a good many people, hungering for
the beautiful" tortured into snow
drops If DR.. Hyatt keeps up the
pace, it may be that Thursday will
be white" and if it is. nobody will say
any longer that the weather bureau in
Salt Lake can't do JUS as clever a
stunt as the weather bureau back IN
wooster
What 1t Used to Be.
Talking about weather. one is re-
minded that this November Will Prob
ably be one Of the record months in all
of the years since the bureau has been
established. now about thirty-five years.
Perhaps it is on account of the race
meeting that the weather man has been
kind in dealing out his fair weather.
perhaps it is just to show that he isn't
so dreadful as people would paint him,
perhaps he has given Salt Lake this
glorious weather as advance conpensa-
! ton for that which he is going to do to
them when he turns on the Arctic tap.
At any rate, no one will deny thai the
weather since the first of the month has
been ideal. True, during the first three
/ days there was a suDerabundance of
! heat occasioned by the strenuosity of
! the campaign; and after the first Tues
/ day there was a decided chill in some
| of the political camps, yet there was no
| frown on the countenance of Old Sol
at any time, and he beamed his kindly
beam on Republican and Democrat
alike, and has ceased not to beam until
/ Saturday. when he thought it was time
| to take a vacation. So concluding, the
old fellow hid his face behind the clouds,
and when he will appear again no man
save DR.. Hyatt may presume 10 say.
Without a Cloud.
Twenty days of sunshine, grand, glo-
riOus, magnificent sunshine, is the rec
| ord thus far for November, A. ID. 1908.
Previous years there have been when
the sun shone scarcely at ell n N0-
vemOer, and previous years there have
been when neither raindrop nor fake
came upon the earth. 1t Is the testi-
mony of the record that in the Novem-
Der of 1904 not single trace 1f precip-
/ itation was noted. That year, il viii be
/ remembered, was also q presidential
/ year. In 1875, which was Sar remove
/ from a presidential election year, Salt
/ Lake had the worst November for pre-
/ cipitatiOn that ever was, and maybe
that ever will be. In that month, would
anyone believe it, 5.S1 inches of moist
ure fell? The average precipitation for
| thirty-three years was lao incnes in
| November.
/ In the same number of NOvembers the
average number of clear days was
twelve. partly cloudy nine, AMI cloudy
nine. The present November has that
record skinned foot, q foot anu a half
or two feet, for already thers have been
twenty clear days. and Saturday could
be classed as only partly cloudy.
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