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Show RECORD FOR COLD lATej ii Temperature Falls to Forty Degrees De-grees at Noon Saturday and Sunday. FIRST TIME THIS HAS EVER BEEN RECORDED Cold Spell May Do Considerable to Tomatoes; Other Products Pro-ducts Uninjured. On July 1 last ilic temperature In .Salt Lake City, according to the official records rec-ords 'on file at tin; local station of tho United States weather bureau, reached a maximum of 101 degrees about 2 o'clock Jn the afternoon. Last Saturday and Sunday the temperature dropped to a minimum of 40 degrees at the same time of the day. From those, figures It will he seen that the year 1 000 has the record for extreme changes in temperature. In fact, never before In the Inst thirty-six ynrs (the time during which .a station of the weather bureau has been maintained In this city) has the temperature been known to drop as low as 10 degrees In tho middle of tho day so early In the fall Benson. On September 10. 167S. according to tho records of the weather bureau, a minimum mini-mum of :IS degrees was recorded. On September S and 10, 1SS!'. tho temperature tempera-ture fell to a minimum of 10 and :?7 degrees, de-grees, respectively, and on September , N' and 3. 1SS., a minimum of 30 ami JO degrees, respectively, occurred, On September 10, 1S96, the temperature, fell to a minimum of -10 degrees. Occurred in Early Morning. All these records, however, occurred during the early morning, probably about 5 or 6 a. m.. and by noon time the temperature tem-perature was considerably higher In each case. This year a minimum of -10 degrees de-grees occurs In the middle of tho day, which gives the present year tho rocord. The cold spell will do much harm to tomatoes on the lower ground, according to officials of the state board of horticulture. horti-culture. By the lower 'ground Is meant that section of the- clty'around the Jordan Jor-dan river and other low districts. It Is not expected thai much harm will be done, the tomatoes In Mill Creel:, but losses may result In Davis county, according ac-cording to a statement made by one of the officials of the hoard Sunday evening. even-ing. Other vegetables will suffer no damage unless the temperature falls considerably lower than It has thus far. Various kinds of fruit are as yet unhurt, also, said a member of the ptato hoard of horticulture horticul-ture Inst evening. Sunday's meteorological record at tho local station of the United States weather bureau for the twenty-four hours ending at C p. m. wan an follows; Temperature at t p. m.. 57 degrees: maximum temperature. 57 degrees; minimum mini-mum temperature, 10 degrees; mean temperature. tem-perature. IS degrees, which a 1H degrees below normal. Total deflcieney since the first of the month. H degrees", total excess slnco January 1st, -IS degrees. Precipitation at f p. m., nil; total precipitation pre-cipitation since tho first of tbo month, 1.1-J Inches which Is .So Inch above normal. nor-mal. Total excess since January 1, 3.SG Inches. Relative humidity, 45 per cent. |