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Show Wintry Weather Pushes in On PI. Grove Area Like the camel's body following follow-ing his nose, wintry weather conditions pushed into the local area during the last 4 days of the weather week ending Monday Mon-day evening, Oct. 13. The period per-iod started off with an afternoon after-noon temperature of 78 degrees and featured an afternoon reading read-ing of 47, four days later. Early morning temperatures of freezing or below hit the area during the last three days of the period. Rainstorms in the valley and snow in the foothills and mountains moun-tains were a chilly feature of the weather picture on Oct. 10 and on Columbus Day, Sunday, Oct. 12. Early Sunday morning morn-ing the lawns were white with snow. Storms in Wyoming and Colorado Colo-rado reached blizzard proportions, propor-tions, with traffic snarls, accidents acci-dents and at least two deaths. Record cold was registered in most of the Intermountain area. Skies were partly cloudy early ear-ly Tuesday morning. Outside the temperature was 32 degrees. de-grees. The barometer was steady at 29.95. Unsettled conditions for the rest of the week with an increasing in-creasing chance of rain and snow showers and little change in the temperature pattern was the forecast. Statistics for the week, ending end-ing at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13. Date High Low Pre. October 7 .... 72 33 0.00 October 8 . . . . 78 38 0.00 October 9 . . . . 66 42 0.00 October 10 ... 49 35 0.13 October 11 . . . 56 31 0.00 October 12 . . . 47 27 0.12 October 13 ... 58 29 0.00 Summary Temperatures: Highest 78, lowest 27. Week's averages, high 61, low 34, and mean, 48 degrees. Precipitation for the week, 0.25 of an inch. Since Jan. 1, 11.88 inches. ; Sun rises above Dry Canyon Notch at 8:10 a.m. and sets behind be-hind Lake Mountain at 6:40 p.m., DST |
