The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1923-06-21
RECORD RA|NF FALL
FOR W|NNEMUCCA
Between Two and Three Inches of
Rain and Hail During Last
Week. With More Today to
run Record Higher

Rain and more rain is about the
most important subject for CONVEX
sation today, about the streets of
Winnemucca, with the customary
salutations concerning the weather
being changed to "Will it never
stop?" With total rainfall since
the last publication of this news
paper set at 2.29 inches by Weather
Observer Ray L. Fisher, and heavy
downpour of rain and hail, accom-
panied by crashing thunder and
cracking lightning, even as this is
written this afternoon, following a
more or less continued rainfall
throughout last night, all records
for June precipitation in this Sec
tion have not only been exceeded,
but a new record is apparently in
the making that will stand for many
years in the future. At 3 o'clock
this afternoon total of 30 nches
had fallen today, which added to
the 2.07 inches which was recorded
for the week makes a total record
precipitation for one week of 2.29
inches, with unsettled weather re-
ported for tonight and fair tomor-
row. Total precipitation SO far
this month, with nine days more to
go, is shown at the government
weather bureau to have been 2.49
inches.
Since 1877, when the weather
bureau was established here forty
six years ago, there has been re-
corded only four years when the
precipitation in June reached the
lso-incn mark Tor the whole month,
with the average rainfall during
this month over the 46-year period
being 0.65 of an inch, a measely
half inch and a little over. In
1885 precipitation recorded in June
reached 2.41 of an inch; in 1894 it
was 2.15; in 1913 it was 2.14 and
in 1914 it was 2.17. These high
figures compare with June, 1923,
for the 21 days of the month, with
2.49 inches precipitation. On the
other hand, there were three years
du-ing the 46 when no precipitation
at all was recorded during the
month of June, these being 1880,
1916 and 1919.
However, the country about Win
nemucca had these storms coming,
for with the ending of last month
q serious condition was presented
to the ranchers with deficiency in
precipitation recorded to be 2.10
inches below the normal for this
season. the present storms merely
bringing the total precipitation for
the year commencing September,
1922, up to normal, if indeed,
should the storms cease Immediately
. slight deficiency might result.
The result Of this months storms,
however, has brought that "grand
and glorious feeling" to most resi-
dents of the northern tier of Ne
vada counties, for it has assured
ample crops all around, with range
conditions the best in many years.
This will probably result in the
ranging of greater number of
cattle and sheep in this section, with
ultimate greater prosperity.
One other rainfall record was
almost broken during the last week,
when Lao inches of rain fell last
Saturday. This has been exceeded
only during the night of June 1920,
1914, when 1.56 inches were record
ed, the highest on record. The rain
fall Of last Saturday did exceed,
however. that of any other 24-hour
period during the last 46 years.
Present indications are that the
storm period is not yet over, ac-
cording to the weather observer.