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Newspaper
Syracuse Herald Journal
Location
Syracuse, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1985
Page
2
Syndicated columnist Mike Royko vowed to keep pressuring AT T with guerrilla tactics after the company apologized and urged callers to dial 1 800 before the seven digit number to reach its consumer products office. Royko warned the vendetta would continue despite the number change suggestion.
Herald Journal issues corrections for the suburban west and north editions. Grace Grenga is treasurer and trustee at Borodino Methodist Church. Nancy Polech is state president of the National Association of Postal Supervisors Auxiliary. Salina tax receiver serves four years. Ronald J. Ladd’s name misspelled. Pompey supervisor Carl Dennis is challenged by Robert C. Miner.
The Syracuse forecast calls for sunny intervals today with a high near 55 to 60 degrees and a clear cool night with lows in the 30s and scattered frost in some valleys. Saturday brings morning sun then clouds with highs around 60 to 65. Extended outlook notes a chance of showers Sunday, partly sunny Monday, and a chance of rain again Tuesday. daily lows near 45 to 50 and highs in the 60s.
National Weather Service warns of the season’s first hard freeze as Canadian air moves into upstate New York. Temperatures fall from the 30s in the Adirondacks to the 20s tonight, with NYC area possibly staying above freezing. Forecasters cite radiational cooling and thinning clouds for the colder night, with frost likely in Syracuse valleys and a chilly Saturday ahead. Elsewhere, widespread rain and storm activity spread from Arizona to the Atlantic coast, with Isabel weakening as it moves inland toward Georgia and the Carolinas. coastal winds and rough seas persist in parts of the Great Lakes and Northeast waterways.
An 8th magnitude object is visible with good binoculars near the left edge of Orion as Halley’s comet appears in early evenings. The Discovery Center in Syracuse offers updated comet information at 425-5397 with moon phase notes for the period.
Yesterday's heating degree days and temperature figures are incomplete. Syracuse reports a Thursday high of 48 with a record high 86 in 1949 and record low 28 in 1943. Rainfall totals show .88 inch on Thursday and 23.01 inches for October year to date. Wind, predicted, and aloft speeds are listed from 3,000 to 25,000 feet with west-northwesterly directions and escalating speeds up to 92 mph. Data sourced from the National Weather Service.
Weather readings across multiple zones show cold to very cold nights with frost in Buffalo Jamestown Rochester Elmira Corning and surrounding counties. Saturday brings clouding with a 30 percent or similar chance of rain or unsettled conditions and highs mostly mid to upper sixties in many areas.
The foliage report shows peak colors at Ble Mountain Lake Lake Placid Speculator Whiteface and Wilmington with near peak in Indian Lake North Creek and Tupper Lake Old Forge past peak. Cumulative notes include 15 percent change in Green County Catskills Bellayre Mountain and higher elevations. various counties report near peak or midpoint progression across New York with regional detail and contact numbers for forecasts.
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