From Deseret News archives:
C-c-c-cold in Utah breaks, ties records
Utah has been slammed with a river of cold air. "It wasn't straight from the North Pole," said KSL meteorologist Dan Pope, "but it was straight out of Canada."
Howling in from that country's frigid Northwest Territories, the cold air mass followed the jet stream as it jogged southward over Utah. And, as Pope points out, "This is the coldest time of the year."
In widely scattered sections of Utah, the National Weather Service recorded a dozen records for the coldest Jan. 14 and another three frosty temps that tied the previous lows. Delta residents shivered in a nearly unbelievable minus 24 degrees, as did those of Randolph, Rich County. It was 19 below zero at the Cedar City Airport and minus-23 in Richfield.
"Highs" of the day also were at record low levels, or tied for the record, at Brian Head, Bryce Canyon, Cedar City, Coalville, Delta, Duchesne, Fillmore, Kanab, Nephi, Pleasant Grove, Provo at Brigham Young University, Richfield, Spanish Fork, Tooele, Utah Test and Training Range, and Wendover. The coldest highs were 9 degrees, at Duchesne and Richfield.
According to KSL meteorologist Dina Freedman, today's forecast calls for: Salt Lake City, minus 1 as a low, 18 as the high; St. George, 15 and 34; Ogden, zero and 18; Logan, minus 10 and 11; Provo, minus 2 and 17.
Freedman and Pope said today should be "mostly sunny to sunny statewide, with increasing pollution in northern Utah." Haze was expected build up as an inversion trapped colder weather and blocked the escape of pollutants.
Stagnant air should begin to accumulate significantly around the middle of the week, Pope said. Meanwhile, Utah will be locked in a deep freeze until clouds and winds arrive.
Temperatures throughout much of the state this week should range from 10 degrees to 18 degrees below normal.
Still, compared with other parts of the country, that will be a cakewalk, if a chilly one. In the Midwest and East, ice storms were blamed for at least 20 deaths, and power was knocked out for hundreds of thousands of people.
Waves of freezing rain, sleet and snow since Friday have caused at least 11 deaths in Oklahoma, six in Missouri, two in Texas and one in New York.
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