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Show Snow Near As Mercury Goes Higher Definite predictions of snow for Utah Thursday nirht and Fridav were made by federal weather forecasters fore-casters as a minimum temperature in Salt Lake City marked the last trsce of strength in ths recent near-record near-record cold wave. J. Cecil Alter, federal meteorologist, meteorol-ogist, said the low point, reached at 10 p. m. Wednesday instead of between be-tween 7 and 8 a. m., as is normal for this season, resulted from a low barometric ba-rometric pressure system in the northwest that is bringing milder weather to all Utah, Idaho, Nevada and much of California, Arizona and New Mexico. Stressing the return to normal conditions is the sverage reading of 22 degrees in Salt Lake City, which is within 8 degrees of normal. "Little snow Is resulting from the storm," Mr. Alter ssid, "and not a great deal is expected to fall over this region. Higher temperatures, however, are definitely in sight." A range of 19 to 25 degrees Is expected ex-pected for Salt Lake valley Thurs-ICoatlnued Thurs-ICoatlnued on Pare Twelvs-i 1 Column Thrnel SNOW FORECAST IN S.JLREGION Continued front Paso One) day night, 10 to 20 over Utah generally gen-erally and from aero to It degrees In ths mountains. While soma Utah points continued to report subzero temperatures, many stations noted warmer weather. weath-er. Readings Included Wendover, a; Coalville, ; Mllford, 20; Mo-dena, Mo-dena, It; Salt Lake airport, I; Brighton, 10; Mountain Dell, 18; City Creek highline, It; Bear lake, 10; Cutler, 1; Logan and Ogden, 10; Salt Lake terminal, 5;. Bingham, j It; Provo canyon and Eureka, 17; I Soldier Summit, 4, and Helper, a. Records Broken All records for cold and deep snow at Zloa park were broken during the last storm, snow depth being t feet I lnchea This was followed fol-lowed by clear weather, temperatures tempera-tures dropping to It below sero, 4 degrees below the previous low record rec-ord of 11 below January 22, 1817. I City, county and state crews, : meanwhile, were taking advantage jot Improved weather conditions to "mop up." All city trucks and most of the large plows were gathering up snow from curbs and at Intereections, while a portable steam plant waa in use inawing irosen guttera. me business district waa virtually cleaned up, with Sugarhouse and main arteriala getting attention. ! Market Roads Cleared I - State equipment was widening lanea and scraping loose surface snow to the sidee of the highways. All main road being open, farm-to-market routes were being cleared, while ether crews placed aand and cinders at slippery spots In the canyons can-yons and cleared snow from around highway signs. One big Job for the state road commission was the cooperation with forest service and C C C au-thoritiea au-thoritiea in opening anowblocked road to sheep marooned amid feed shortage in the southern part of the state" and in the Arlsona atrip. County equipment alao was widening wid-ening routes and keeping newly churned snow off the surface. I J. M. Macfarlane, preeldent of i the Utah Cattle and Horse Growers' association, Thursday advised Utah livestock qien that three governmental govern-mental agenciea were ready to make loane to "tide over" stockmen whose herds are threatened by cold and snow. |