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Show os to know it was eee Mercury. uly degrees. omee to 13 Se drop Monday in Salt Lake ae Nn Ams od Frigid Vise Tightens Grip On Shivering Utah, Area ST : w we ‘ sf Pt O Jeanette Teerlink, left, and Eileen Baldwin didn’t have to watch the thermometer est reading this year, ‘but not low enough to replace the record minus 12 degrees in 1932. However, that year’s lowest — in some in- rather mild weather punctuated only by a snowstorm Saturday. = The state’s high temperature Monday was at St. George where it was 37 degrees, and between that and Woodruff’s low — recorded at 5:30 a.m. by the U.S. Weather Bureau— maximum broken of 14.4 degrees was|“ by Monday’s 13 at 1 p.m. AT WOODRUFF, Rich CounAt. Blanding it was 10 de ty, it was minus 32 degrees grees; minus 20 at Bryce Can-|pi jearly Monday and elsewhere in. ‘there were these temperatures: yon; minus 1 at De ta, ob Vv Utah temperatures were plum- nine days | ; Fi ace? of|10 Mhaavtiat Was EAKE a as the city’s | BUT IN OTHER parts of the a “| Rawrn? tac minus 5 at Roosev err CITY’s minus E ; iriteriountsin Area there were | — considerable =\|At Big Piney, }minus lower readings. Wyo., it was 36 degrees and at Butte, It was a countdown for for Salt Lake temperatures after the United States Weather Bureau recorded the days’ high of 13 degrees at 1 p.m. Here are some of the hourly readings: WS 2pm. 13 pam 42 ‘$e pan "§ pin. 6pm. i ch 7pm. —1 | uc 8 pm. 0) -6o.° Je pin 7 6 1D 28 oS pa oe 6 tipm. 5 | |th de -|Mont., the low was minus 34 degrees. There, it warmed) z enough for a high of minus 5 "| degrees, 1). Almost c|mountain = Ww everywhere in the)! states, cold weather | . | was sealing the region, L| ie c were gen-|c IN UTAH, roads erally snow- packed in the val-|_|leys, canyons and higher elevations but traffic was moving and slick spots made worse by dropping temperatures were not hampering too much. Meanwhile, back at the theripa - » people were doing talking | about the ot | ather. The winter of 1932, ~“P which struck with similar force almost to the day in Salt Lake ots AM after id | SALT introduction to| a hard December City, was ~~ meting, record readings watched. — omnia oOHK Aw “ oo” Cold weather stances the worst in 30 years— continued to shout “Winter” through the Intermountain Area: Monday with a loud and clear voice. being recalled were and|: being SALT LAKE CITY'S 10 below, while short of the 1932 reading on Dec. 11; was nevertheless the coldest reading since Nov. 16, 1955, when it was 14 below. Woodruff’s 32 below: was the | coldest since Feb. 6, 1899, when they really had winters; 50 degrees below then. it was COALVILLE’S 20 below Monday was the coldest since -|Jan. 30, 1957, when the same reading was recorded. But back See Page 3, Column 1 |
