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Show Abnormally Warm Weather Last Week for October Abnomially waim conditions featured the weather week ending end-ing on Monday, Oct. 26. On Saturday, Sat-urday, October 24, . the mercury climbed to 78 degrees and numerous num-erous cases of sunburn were reported re-ported by fans who attended the BYU-Denver football game. Also, the October drought continued con-tinued throughout the week. Not even a trace of moisture wet' the bottom of the rain gauge in the garden of Calvin Walker, local U.S. weather observer.-. Total for the month up to October 26 stood at 0.17 f an inch, and that's dry for Central Utah. A light .rain .began falling early during the morning of Tuesday, October 27. When the clouds lif t-. t-. ed momentarily at about 6 ajn. a light sprinkling of new , snow covered the higher elevations of Mt. Timpanogos. However, the weather prophets maintained that the storm was a transitory thing and would soon move eastward. Pair skies and oontinued warm temperatures featured the weekend forecast. Statistics for the week ending October 26, 1959. Date High Low Pre. October 20 71 33 0.00 October 21 64 33 0.00 October 22 67 39 0.00 October 23 70 37 0.00 October 24 78 38 0.00 October 25 75 41 0.00 October 26 67 32 0.00 Summary Highest temper- ature for Uie week, 78 degrees on October 24. Lowest, 32 degrees de-grees on October 26. Preoipitation for the week, 0.0 Total since January 1, 12.80 inches. in-ches. Sun rises at 7:40 a.m. Sun sets at 5:30 pjn. |