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Show Ground Hog Sees Shadow, Six More Weeks of Winter Pleasant Grove's official Ground Hog made his prediction predic-tion last Sunday. It was a cold day, freezing temperatures, so he didn't stay out very long. Just long enough to take a gander around and to see his shadow, cast by a bright sun. "Six more weeks" he shouted shout-ed to Mrs. Hog, who was busy in the burrow fixing his breakfast. break-fast. "Six more weeks of what?" she asked, giving the hot cakes a flip. "Six more weeks of winter, .. silly," he answered back, "So shape up the beds for 42 more days and nights of restful sleep." And you know, that judging the future by the past, Mr. Hog might be right, at that. Anyway January has been a record month for rain and snow storms. Total precipitation for the 31 days totaled 3.47 inches of pure water according to the official report of Calvin Walker U.S. Weather observer. That could be a record, too, he noted. Light snow fell over the Plesaant Grove area during 4 days of the 7-day period, ending end-ing at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 3. However the total precipitation didn't amount to much just slighly over one-tenth of an inch. Skies were clear early Tuesday Tues-day morning. Outside temperature temper-ature was 18 degrees and the barometer was steady at 30.10. Increasing high clouds, with snow showers later in the week and warmer, was the forsecast Statistics for the week, ending end-ing at 6 p.m. Monday, February Febru-ary 3, 1969. January 28 . . 40 24 0.02 January 29 . . 29 18 0.10 January 30 . . 35 12 trace January 31 . . 35 13 0.00 February 1 . . 32 15 0.01 February 2 . . 37 11 0.00 February 3 . . 39 10 0.00 Summary Temperatures Highest, 40; lowest, 10. Week's average, high, 35; low, 15; mean, 25 degrees. Precipitation: For the week 0. 13 of an inch .Since January 1, 3.48 inches. Sun rises and sets locally at 8.20 a.m. and 5.35 p.m. MST |