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Show Groundhog Sees Shadow on Monday, Winter Is Still Here "Tote in the chips, Elmer and chunk up the fire, thar's a deal more winter coming," said the Battle Creek Oldtimer last Monday. The Old-Timer's prediction was based on the official observations ob-servations of Mr. Ground Hog, who had no trouble seeing his shadow, regardless of the time he left his burrow on Feb. 2. The skies were cloudless practically prac-tically all day long. Monday's sunshine was a great change from Sunday snowstorms. This reporter crossed Point of the Mountain at about 5 p.m. and a real blizzard was blowing. Four snowstorms visited the Pleasant Grove area during the 7-day period ending Monday evening, Ground Hog Day. However the total liquid precipitation pre-cipitation was less than one-quarter one-quarter of an inch. At any rate, the January thaw ended during the period, with temperatures decidedly on the downward trend. Last Thursday, the early morning official reading was only 11 degrees de-grees above zero. This reporter "saw a couple of slate colored juncos in the garden bushes Monday morning morn-ing the first "snowbirds" to be observed this season to date. Skies were partly cloudy early ear-ly Tuesday morning. Outside it was 30 degrees and the barometer bar-ometer was high at 30.35. Clearing with later periods of light snow, slightly warmer was the forecast. Statistics for the week ending end-ing at 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 2: Date High Low Pre. January 27 . . 52 38 trace January 28 .. 39 21 0.05 January 29 . . 36 11 0.03 January 30 . . 42 19 0.00 January 31 . . 39 19 0.00 February 1 . . 40 25 0.14 February 2 . . 39 21 0.01 Summary Temperatures : Highest 52, lowest 11. Week's averages high 41, low 22, and mean 31 degrees. Precipitation for the week, 0.23 of an inch. Since Jan. 1, 2.08 inches. Sun rises above the Wasatch and sets behind the Oquirrh at 8:20 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. MST. |