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Show TEMPERATURE DROPS' TO FOUR DEGREES BELOWZERO AT 5 A. M., WEATHER MAN . SAYS COLD WAVE CONTINUES SUNDAY COLDEST PLACElV-IN THE WEST. ' Degrees. Salt Lake 4 below Modena, Utah 12 below Grand Junction. Colo ..1 bejow Winnemucca, Nev., ....22 below Lander, Wyo 28 below There has been no abatement , of the extremely cold1 weather that Is visiting Salt Lake, and this morning the temperature temper-ature was 6 degrees lower than It was at any time yesterday." s -y. r" "'' " At 5 o'clock the -thermometer at the weather bureau registered 4 DEGREES BELOW., a mark' that has not before been registered in. this city for a number num-ber of years and one that will probably not again be reached, this winter, at The temperature rose to 1 DEGREE BELOW at 6 o'clock, and then began to drop again. At 7 o'clock It was again down to 4 DEGREES BELOW, although al-though persona who had to get out to attend to business believed it was much lower.- The air began to wa i -p as the day advanced and at 8 oY it was 1 degree de-gree below rero, at 9 o 'clock; It was still colder than at any tlrr.e yesterday, and the thermometer registered ro. By 10 o'clock the mercury had risen to 4 above and continued to rise during the next hour. At , 11 o'clock the temperature ' was 11 degrees above and still rising. SECTION DIRECTOR MURDOCH IS UNABLE TO PROMISE ANY WARMER WARM-ER WEATHER FOR TOMORROW, but said this morning that he did not believe It would be as cold tonight as It was last night. "There has been no change in. the weather conditions since yesterday," he said. "The storm of a few days ago is still central over New Mexico, and an area of high pressure extends rom the northern Rocky mountain slope eastward. east-ward. Until an area of low pressure moves this way from the west this cold weather will continue, but I don't think it will be quite as cold tonight as It was last night. I am Of the opinion that 4 degrees below is the coldest temperature that will be experienced this year." Salt Lakers may consider themselves, lucky that they are not residents of some nearby localities, for at Lander, Today's Temperature. Degrees. o'clock 1 below 7 o'clock 4 below 8 o'clock -. 1 below 9 o'clock zero, 10 o'clock. 4 above 11 o'clock .". 9 above 12 o'clock . ....11 above 1 o'clock 11 above Wyo the mercury dropped to 28 degrees below last night; at Grand Junction, which Is not far to the southeast of this city, it dropped to 14 degrees below; at Winnemucca, which is to the norLh and west ot Salt Lake, 22 degrees below zero was recorded last night, and at Modena, to the southwest, Xhe temperature fell to 12 degrees below zero- Winnipeg. In Manitoba, was the coldest cold-est place west of the Mississippi, and at that place the .mercury got lost in . the neighborhood of 32 degrees below. The thermometer registered 10 deg. below zero at- the penitentiary this morning. The big State prison is exposed ex-posed to the winds from Emigration canyon, and the temperature- Is Invariably Invari-ably lower there than in the city. |