The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-05
FINE SAOWSTORM
BENEFITS UTAH
IS what Dry Farmer Needs and
What lnsures Bountiful Sup
ply OF Water for Summer.
WILL LAST ANOTHER DAY
MEANWHILE 1T is WET AND
SLOPPY UNDERTOOK.

hne snOwstOrm struck Utah yes
terday, and the indications are that il
VIII continue for at least another day
Inc fall was heavy and steady. The
precipitation began early in the morn
ing, when rain fell When the temper
ature fell the rain changed to snow. In
the city the flakes melt almost as fast
as they fail, but in the mountains the
snow will hold in great quantities.
Al no time yesterday was the tenn
perature disagreeabiy cold. 1t ranged
ABOUT the freezing point or a little
above There was scarcely a sign of
"ihd' and the fakes came straight
down.
The snowfall is general over the
state, the circle that marks the low
pressure having its center at Modena,
win a northern range including Poca-
telio. The fall viii be of inestimable
Dehent TO the dry farmers. 1t is Just
sueh a fall of moisture as best suits
the SOIL at this time. il is said, the pre-
pared surface being I'M the best condi-
uon al this time to receive and retain
II The snowfall also will add greatly
10 the stores of snow in the gulches and
mountains, and insures a bountiful
son.
Water in Plenty.
All of the streams are higher this
season IMAM they were last year, and
the lake is only an inch lower at this
time than il was at its maximum
helsht last year. 1t is altogether prob
aole mat the surface of the lake this
year VIII be higher than it has been
Tor years, and thus Will The magazine
writer again be deprived of his Oppor-
tunity to write articles entitled. salt
Lake Drying Up"
Inc Jordan river is almost bankfuI.
Ihere Will be no fear of a deficiency of
water, even though the indicated de-
ficiency since Jan. 1 is still more Than
half an inch. Yesterdays precipitation
amounted TO "a inch, which leaves the
normal deficiency only SO inch. The
outlook is that this deficiency will be
overtaken and that by tonight wen
be avin agin."
It's the kind of storm | like to see 3"
said DR.. Hyatt, the section director.
Its general and unaccompanied by
nigh wind. We expected it a little
earlier but some of these storms move
slowly when they have nothing behind
them to push them. We find by a ref
erence TO the map that we have moth !
ing behind our storm from the south !
east, and that the storm is being met
with an area of high pressure that pre- |
walls over the whole lake region and |
westward. This viii have a tendency
10 delay the passing of our storm still
more
People Like 1t.
After the long-continued period of |
fair weather, yesterdays dampness was
not much of factor in lettering peo-
pie from getting out of doors Not a /
few of them said they came out lust /
to get into the snow 1t certainly was
sloppy enough 10 suit the most sIushy /
But while Salt Lake and Utah are en-
joying the blessings of a fine snow
storm, they continue up north to per-
sist in being frozen in. Up at Swift |
Current, for instance, it was A degrees
below zero, and at Calgary degrees
below. There was a certain something
that hit Montana, the something being
a cold snap. which showed 10 below at
Havre, but which did not extend over
the state generally Aside from these
extremes. the country Jared pretty
we'll, no section having cause to com
plain of excessive cold or unusual
SHOWS. The local record for the day
was:
Temperature at 8 p. m, "a de-
greess maximum temperature, Al de-
grees; minimum temperature, 80 de-
srees; mean temperature, 81 degrees,
which is l degree below normal Total
excess of temperature since the first
Of the month, 8 degrees; accumulated
excess of temperature since Jan. /, 1853
degrees. Total precipitation, "a inch;
total precipitation since first of the
"a inch, which is 20 inch above
accumulated deficiency since
ian. /, SO inch. Relative humidity at
D. m. 81 per cent.
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