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Show GOLD WEATHER AND RAIN SAYS ORACLE Declares That the Storm From the East Is Moving Westerly. The word-now Is, you need an overcoat, and prohably an umbrella, also. It's going go-ing to be colder today, with rain Last night tho barometer ut the offlco of the local weather' bureau was' going down at the rate of half an Inch au hour, so there's going to he something doing be fore long. Even the poet has put away his straw hat, and taken to banking his house. The weather map yesterday was enough to mako one turn up his coat collar just to look at It. Temperatures all over tho country read 3fi, 4-1. 12, with now and then a i"0. People or Phoenix, Arl7.., are going about with all the clothing they can find and with bagging tied around their ears to keep off the cold. "Wu aro sorry about the rain, of course, and tho cold," said the weather prophet," but the fair people nearly always get a little bnd weather-and It seems too bail to disappoint them Besides, It's Salt Lake's turn now." The storm cloudn have moved westerly from the Atlantic slope and are nosv settlod on the Intermountaln region, while the entlro East Is enjoying the duck shooting. Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, Boise, and Portland, Ore., all hod rain yesterday. There were a few ccattered showers In Salt Lake, but thoy did not amount to much. The thermometer showed only 65 degrees as a maximum and got down to 45 early In tho mornlnx Tho wind blew hard all day, too, and many exciting foot races occurred at tho corners of the streets aftor hate and other oth-er loose wearing apparel. Tho dry goods people are wearing pleasant smiles th?sc days and patting themselves on the back. The sale of fall suitings has begun and peek-a-boo shlrtwnlsts will soon be packed carefully away and kept for another anoth-er season at Saltalr. Official Record. The following Is the official record of the local -weather bureau for the twenty-four twenty-four hours ending at 6 p. m Tuesday night: Maximum temperature, 65 degrees. Minlnmum temperature. 45 degrees. Mean temperature, 55 degrees, which Is 4 degrees below normal. Accumulated deficiency of temperature tempera-ture since the first of the month, 4 degrees. de-grees. Accumulated excess of temperature since January 1, 65 degrees. Relatlvo humidity, 46. Total precipitation from 6 p. m. to 6 p. m., trace. Accumulated deficiency of precipitation precipita-tion since the first of the month, .04 Inches. . Accumulated excess of precipitation slnco January 1, 3.26 Inches. Forecnsts till 6 p. m., Wednesday, mountain time. Local forecast for Salt Lake City and vicinity: Partly cloudy, with win today; cooler. Forecast for Ulah and Western Wyoming. Wyom-ing. Par.tly cloudy with rain in north portion today, with falling temperature. Weather Conditions. An extensive aroa of low barometric pressure covered the British Northwest Territory nnd the Rocky mountain region, extending eastward to the Mississippi river and southward to Texas. From the Mississippi valley eastward to the Atlantic Atlan-tic const, an area of high pressure predominates. pre-dominates. As tho result of this distribution of pressure, rain has fallen during the past twenty-four hurs ovcrOnton, Idaho, the British Northwest Territory, the Daltotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. The temperatures In other places: Comparative Temperatures. Mln. Max. Atlanta 62 SO Boise ' 50 6S Boston 4 60 Chicago 52 56 Cincinnati 52 63 Detroit 42 60 Duluth 42 51 Grand Junction .38 62 Kansas City 56 "4 Los Angeles 52 "S New Orleans.: ' '72 86 New York ....45. G4 Omoha 55 58 Phoenix 52 82 Portland. Ore ... 48 60 St. Louis 51 72 St.. Paul 60 56 San Francisco 64 60 Washington. D. C 46 70 |