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Show South Sea Breezes Keep Balmy Weather in S. L. Cold Wave on Other Side of Divide Sends Mercury Below Zero Suggested chamber of commerce pamphlet: "Come to Salt Lake City, if you want South sea breezes in December." De-cember." It's a fact. There weren't any palm trees waving, grans nkirts swinging or any marines landing, but South sea breezes were making the weather awfully nice here Thursday. We Know it's so, because the weatherman said so. On the other hsnd. those misguided mis-guided persons who choose to live on the other side of the Continental Conti-nental divide, were getting Arctic breezes, and no fooling, because the mercury went down out of sight at Cheyenne and Denver. Just to show whst can be done if you know how to read a weather map, J. Cecil Alter, chief of the local weather bureau, bent over the hieroglyphics spresd before him janu came up wiin ail capiniia.iufi of the bslmy weather here. "Salt Lake City actually is get-iting get-iting the taiiend of South aea i breezes." he said. "There s a deep I low directly opposite this area in the Pacific ocean and is being maintained by these breezes. The low area, in turn, is keeping temperatures tem-peratures up here." The mean temperature, here Wednesdsy was a pleasant 40 degrees, de-grees, six above normal. The early morning minimum Thursdsy waa 31 and Wednesday's maximum was 48. But east of the divide . brrrr. The thermometer dropped to four degrees below zero at Cheyenne and two below at Denver. It was L below at Yellowstone national park. Coldest place in Utah was Duchesne, where the mercury stood at 12 degrees. The region east of the Rockies waa affected by cold wavea from the Arctic circle, Mr. Alter said, and was affected as far south as the Gulf of Mexico, where freezing freez-ing weather was reported at some points. The officisl forecsst for Utah is unsettled weather Thursday night and Friday, with Friday warmer in I the east portion. ' |