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Show i ' " Boreas Ushers In Coldest Day of Present Winter ! Mercury Sinks to 4 Degrees Above Zero Soon After Daybreak. KfTBRDAY "as the coldcs-t day of Ythe present winter, according lo the report of J. Cecil Alter, meteorologist In charge of the local lo-cal weather bureau. The thermometer ther-mometer registered -1 degrees above zero on the roof of the Boston building at 6 o'clock in the morning and on the benches it was several degrees colder. As tiie. day wore on the mercury rose to degrees. Tiie record of yesterday morning was six decrees lower than the previous cold-t:?t cold-t:?t dav of the winter, when the mercury i dropped to In degrees. No record was broken, however, as two degrees lower than vestcrduv was felt in Salt Lake on January IS of last year, and the records show several ears when the mercury hung around the zero mark at about this period of the year. According to the weather forecast, a storm is breaking over the Oregon coast and the northwest and is traveling this wav. Slightly higher temperature is predicted pre-dicted for today, however, and snow tonight, to-night, although not a heavy fall. |