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Show DOOLY BLOCK ORACLE PREDICTS k FROST Thinks That Zion Needs a Little Weather of f lie Shivering Kind. Friday being September 13, tho Dooly block oracle broke all traditions, and not only prepared an excellent weather map, but ulso mnnaged o give Snlt Lnko some of the finest weather he carrlos In stock. So strenuous did the oracle bo-come bo-come In IiIb endeavors to. see Friday, tho 13th. go by without any mishap, that ho made a vigorous .attack on the mercury. For the past two months, ho has been trying to boost the Mould metal, and at the time when Zlon wanted the mercury to go down. Now thai Zlon has decided that the temperature Is about right, tho oracle has decided that the mercury Is entirely too frisky, and that It climbs loo high up the thermometer. For thin reason, lie has ordered a frost. Whether the weather for the next few days will be a "frost" on the oracle's prediction, or whether It will bo a frosty day for Zlon. can only be dotormlned by future developments. devel-opments. The oracle has dono his share by Issuing the proclamation thnt It will be "cooler with frost, and generally fair, Saturday." The mercury did not behave In any scandalous manner Friday. It only mounted to the 72-degreo mark, as the maximum for tho day. General Conditions. A trough . of low barometric pressure cxtondod from the middle and south plateau pla-teau northeastward to the upper Mississippi Missis-sippi valley. High pressure wna central over the North Pacific States, north plateau pla-teau and tho Ohio valley. These conditions condi-tions have caused showers or thunderstorms thunder-storms over portions of Arizona, Utah, Washington. Montana, South Dakota, Minnesota and northern Michigan. Light frost was reported at Wlnnemucca, Nov., this morning Friday's Record. Record at the local office, United States weather bureau, for the twenty-four twenty-four hours ending at 6 p. m. today: Maximum temperature. 72 degrees; minimum temperature, 50 degrees: mean temperature, fil degrees, which- Is 5 do-grees do-grees below normal. Accumulated excess of temperature since the first of the month, none. Accumulated excess of temperature since January 1. 101 degrees. Relative humidity at. 6 p. m., 2G per cent Total precipitation from 6 p. m. to 6 p. m.. none. Accumulated deficiency of precipitation since the first, of the month, .24 of an '"Accumulated excess of precipitation slnco January t, n.Sl inches. Temperatures Elsewhoro. Boise ' 61 Boston 3 Chicago '- o Donvor . Kansas CUy 8J Los Angeles 71 Omaha . -. 1 - Phoenix Spokane Tonopah J Washington . S |
