Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-29
Utah County 0rchardists Fear
Loss Will Reach 85
Per Cent.
COLD WAVE is NOW PASSING
Fair and Warmer Weather Is Predict
cd and General Conditions Are
Filled with Promise.

Good news Is contained in today's
weather prediction for the next "a
! hours The forecast reads: Tonight
| fair and warmer; Thursday. partly
| cloudy and warmer" What is music
to the farmers and fruit growers of the
state is the announcement that the
cold wave has come to an end. at
least it is thought no more frosty
nights are ahead,
| From Pleasant Grove and other fruit
and farming districts comes the report
that frost last night and during the
past few nights, has nipped vegetation
and foliage. Down in Pleasant Grove
some OF the heaviest raisers fear they
| have lost So per cent of a promised
crop, but others believe the loss will
be nowhere near this high figure. Fruit
| growers are now out in their orchards
! and farms checking up and by this
evening some definite idea of the real
| loss will have been obtained.
! Fruit growers in and around Provo
We're fortunate last year in having their
| crops saved by n breeze from the can
| yon bur this year they are IN the ranks
| Of mourners. Some loss viii be sur
fered In the Provo territory this season.
ICE APPEARS
II was cold last night in various sec
tons of the state. a thin ice being found
| on pools Of water near this city early
| this morning. At bedtime last night
| the world outside had a frosty appear
ance and all residents DESTROYS of saw
| ing tender vegetables and flowers took
| the News warning and covered their
1r.Ia 4
| taken delicate sprouts would have been
! nlpped, though the frost was hardly
| heavy enough TO injure the harder
| plants.
Accompanying the welcome news OF
warmer weather's return is the weather
bureaus description of weather oondi-
| tions generally. This follows:
The high barometric pressure area
rom the Pacific has moved eastward
to the plateau and Rocky mountain
| slope, causing frost and freezing tenn.
| peratures over most OF the country
west of the Mississippi valley, over
tina south Pacific and west Gulf states
and lalis region the barometrtc pres
sure Is low, Light precipitation IS
reported over portions OF Colorado.
! Wyp1nine. South Dakota Kansas. Ok
! lahOma, Texas, Mississippi and Ohio
| valleys and lake region.
Fair and warmer weather tonight
and rarity cloudy and warmer Tues
day IS indicated for this locality.
THE WEEKS RECORD.
Another pamphlet fresh from the
weather bureaus printing establish
ment in this city is the general sum
mary of the past weeks weather
throughout tho state. This covers
conditions up To day before Yesterday
and reads as follows;
nj. u 4 a.
err and temperatures much above the
normal over all portions of tho state.
As the week advanced. lower temper
atures; prevailed and the closing days
were nbnOrmally cold, and light to
heavy frosts occurred ovor the north
ern half Of the state, and In the Gle
waited districts OF the southern half.
but little or no damage resulted. Tho
highest temperature reported was SS
degrees at ST. George. Washington
county, on the 18TH. and tho lowest
% degrees. at ParoWan, Iron county.
on the path.
The precipitation averaged nearly
normal for the state as "A whole, and
was very well distributed. being te-
f1cient over comparatively small
areas in the central and eastern Ior-
tions showers were quite general
from the 2lst TO the 24th and were
accompanied by thunderstOrms in
some localities.
High winds prevailed over nearly
all districts, and some damage 10 fruit
trees in bloom was reported.
Owing to the partly cloudy weather
OF the middle and latter portions Of
the week, tho amount OF sunshine as
somewhat deficient over tho northern
aud central portions, but was abpn-
dart In the southern districts whore
the showers and accompanying cloudy
conditions were OF shorter duration.