Excerpt from Climatological Data, Utah, Vol. 51: July 1949

Temperatures were above-normal on the majority of the days from the lst to the 15th of January, but beginning with the lt colder weather overspread the entire State and below-normal readings were recorded most of the remainder of the month. Highest temperatures during the month occurred at Sparta and Mount Carmel on the 18th, when readings of 70° were reached at those points. During the cold period at the end of the month, sub-zero temperatures were general, with the lowest being 29° below zero at Freeport on the morning of the 3oth. Tem peratures for the entire State averaged during January, which was above the normal. Highest monthly average was reported from Cairo, with and at Stockton was the lowest monthly average. The tem perature regime was one of contrasts, with the mild weather of the first 20 days followed by extensive sub - zero temperatures near the end of the month.

Precipitation during the month was near the normal, with a State - wide average of inches. This average total is just inch in excess of the normal. The greatest monthly total precipitation of all reporting sta tions was inches at Brookport Dam 52, while the least monthly total was inch at Carlinville 4 E. In the northern third of the State rather frequent precipitation periods occurred between the 20th and the Slst, with shorter periods between the 2d and the 6th and between the 12th and 15th. In the northern section of the State heaviest amounts fell on the 2d, when a number of stations reported 24-hour falls in excess of one inch. The short precipitation period in the middle of the month in the north consisted of very light amounts. In the central third of the State precipitation was distributed rather evenly over the month. There were no two con secutive days on which at least one station did not report precipitation, and as in the northern third, heaviest amounts fell on the 2d, with a number of stations reporting 24 - hour amounts in excess of one inch. In the southern third the greater portion of the month's precipitation fell between the lst and l6th, with amounts after that period being mostly traces except on the 28th, when moderate amounts fell over the entire area. Heaviest amounts in this section fell on the 14th, when 24 - hour amounts in excess of 2 inches were recorded at some stations. Elizabethtown measured inches on the 14th.

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