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Show Mercury Finally Hits 32 Last Saturday, Oct. 5 It was cold during the early morning hours of Saturday, Oct. 5. Freezing cold, in fact. For the first time -since late last spring, the mercury of the official thermometer ther-mometer at the home of Calvin Walker, stood at an even 32 degrees. de-grees. The green leaves of tender plants were nipped looally by Jack Frost, but damage was slight. Lower areas of Utah and Salt Lake Valleys Val-leys reported more extensive frost damage to tomatoes, corn and garden gar-den flowers. Daytime temperatures have remained re-mained fairly warm and should continue so for the next few days. Frost, however, could come again any night with a cold wind. The first killing frost of thte season came Oct. 9 last year so Jack Frost may be expected to arrive ar-rive in earnest with a little en-couiagement. en-couiagement. It won't be long now. Statistics for the week ending Monday, Oct. 7 are as follows: Date High Low Pre. October 1 86 49 0.00 October 2 76 55 trace October 3 62 42 0.14 October 4 57 33 0.08 October 5 72 32 0.00 October 6 71 35 0.00 October 7 65 - 36 0.00 Summary: Highest temperature for the week 86 degrees on Oct. 1. Lowest, 32 degrees on Oct. 5. Precipitation Pre-cipitation for the week 0.22 of an inch. Total precipitation since Jan. 1, 1957. 15.13 inches. Sun rises at 7 a.m. Sun sets at 6:15 p.m. |