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Show SNOW FLURRIES DUE IN WAKE OF -WINTERADVEMT Temperature Barely Below Freezing as Fall Ends Snow flurries Wednesday night and Thursday will lend a touch of reality to winter, which arrived officially of-ficially at 11:22 p. m. Tuesday, feS era! weather men said Wednesday. The flurries will coma, they explained, ex-plained, when a low pressure area Temperatures Wod. Tuee. Oty Airport City 1a.m. 29 14 Is t a. m. 27 6 te 1a.m. M IS 17 4 a. m. zft 17 Z 8 a. m. 27 17 25 a. m. 2 M 24 tin, 17 17 24 8 a. m. 17 27 15 a. m. M M 14 10 a. m. , M 2 se 11am. M st 13 It noon 37 84 9 1p.m. 42 M M J p. m. 43 41 17 1p.m. 42 41 41 spreading eastward from Oregon reaches northern Utah, causing unsettled un-settled conditions here. The mercury was at 39 here at the moment winter arrived. Early Wednesday it had touched a low of 26. But wlH Salt Lake City have a white Christmas? The weather man. refusing to make such a long-distance prediction, predic-tion, pointed to the record of other years and said: "Deduce what you may! Anything can happen." Not since 1932 has Christmas dawned with snow on the ground here, although last year saw a blis-zard blis-zard strike the city on Christmas night. In fact, 14 of the past 44 Christmasea have been celebrated without the traditional white covering, cover-ing, the weather men recounted. The heaviest Christmas snowfall, wathermen recalled, came December Decem-ber 29, 1914. when a 10-inch blanket fell from the sky. Snow" attained the greatest depth 14.7 inches in 1932. Christmas day temperatures have ranged from a low of six below sero in 1924 to a high of 53 above sero in 1931. Throughout the stats winter found the mercury early Wednesday Wednes-day at minimums of 4 at Duchesne. S at Greenriver. 14 at Delta and Coalville, 12 at Modena, 18 at Wen-dover Wen-dover and 22 at Milford. Mean temperature in Salt Lake City Tuesday was 83 degrees 8 degrees de-grees above normal for that date. A rising trend was noted Wednesday Wednes-day morning. Dearth of snow throughout the state has created a shortage of drinking water for cattle, which eat snow while an winter ranges, J. Cecil Alter, government meteorologist, me-teorologist, said Wednesday In a weekly report on. weather, crop and rain conditiona, - |