Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 22, 1977, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press saturday january 22, 1977 weather report to touts of Emily plan Al Procip notion High in spurt Low part our. Cold front worm front Montreal up the Quebec social affairs depart ment is blazing a Trail toward a provincial guaranteed family Revenue plan that will soon be submitted to cab inet says a department official. A month from now at the latest the department will re commend to Cabinet a Gra dual implementation of a guaranteed family Revenue Aubert Ouellet said in an interview. It s the first step toward legislation in that said or. Ouellet. Assistant mild trend Follo ivs Winter s coldest Days forecast Tor Winnipeg. Bissett the Interlake and red River re Gions Cloudy but Bright today with highs near -4 a lows near a c. Outlook for sunday sunny. Extended weather Outlook Southern Manitoba mainly sunny sunday with above Normal temperatures. Mainly Cloudy monday and tuesday with one or two periods of Light Snow. Temperatures continuing above Normal. Northern Manitoba mainly Cloudy sunday through tues Day with a few periods of Snow beginning monday and continuing tuesday. Temperatures above Normal. Northwestern Ontario Clearing on sunday. Mainly sunny on monday clouding Over tuesday with a few periods of Light Snow. Temperatures continuing above Normal. Temperatures b following Are the minimum temperatures for the 12-hour period that ended at 7 . Yesterday and the maximum temperatures for the 12-hour period that ended at 7 . Max. Min pre. Dawson -15 -24 Vancouver 8 Victoria 10 2 Jasper -7 Edmonton 1 -7 Calgary b Prince Alberts -22 Saskatoon -2 -12 Regina -7 -15 Brandon -7 -20 Thompson -17 -26 .2 the pas.-11 -22 to Winnipeg -14 Thunder Bay -10 -19 Windsor a to London -5 i Kenora -7 -20 North Bay .-10 -17 Churchill -24 -26 Toronto -3 -8 Ottawa -8 a Montreal of a Moncton -2 -17 Halifax -1 -12 St. Johns fld. -3 -10 Minneapolis to -12 Boston 1 new York. -3 -6 Miami 17 4 Max. Min. Chicago -6 -14 los Angeles 19 14 Minneapolis -4 -12 san Francisco 13 7 Oklahoma City 13 -5 Denver 16 -5 Phoenix. 24 -12 Honolulu 27 18 Victoria 9 1 Amsterdam 4 -2 Athens 14 4 Bangkok 33 24 Beirut. 14 7 Berlin -2 -3 pre .2 Brussels 4 Buenos Aires -1 Copenhagen -2 Frankfurt .4 Geneva 7 Helsinki -13 Hong Kong 21 Honolulu 27 Johannesburg 27 Kiev -6 Lisbon 15 London Madrid Mexico City Moscow Paris Rio Rome Sao Paulo Seoul Singapore Stockholm Taipei Tehran Tel Aviv Tokyo 7 12 20 .-15 9 34 12 25 -2 33 -2 15 7 0 -5 -3 2 2 -18 15 17 14 -8 11 6 5 6 -18 6 21 7 18 -7 24 -5 15 -1 10 0 Winnipeg temperature comparisons Jan. 21 last year Normal Max. Min. Mean -17.0 -12.2 -22.8 -17.4 -15.6 -26.1 -20.6 by j. Ii. Jonson the coldest Winter weather usually comes to Winnipeg in the third week of january. This week held True to the pattern but the cold weather changed to a mild warming trend at midweek. Winnipeg temperatures averaged Over a Long period normally dip to a Low Point near january 22 w Hen overnight lows average -26c and afternoon highs average -16c. This week began with the sunday minimum Down to -35c, but monday morning w a s the coldest of this Winter. The minimum thermometer read -3sc in cold Arctic air that was moving southward e r the cold air continued on a track towards Florida As Milder air began to flow across the Prairies. Temperatures on tuesday Rose from -22c to -13c. But the warmest weather came on wednesday. A warm front moved Over the City and temperatures Rose from -13c to -3c just three degrees from thawing. Clouds thickened along the warm front and snowfall amounted to 5.5 pm. That was the heaviest one Day snowfall of this Winter but it failed to raise moisture Levels. Water equivalent now amounts to 27.? my from november 1st compared to a Normal amount of 66.0 my. Thursday stayed mild with temperatures i n a Range from -13c up to -8c and Fri Day was a sunny -17c to so degrees. It eight degrees warmer than usual for Jan 21 and the Outlook is for More of the same. Weather outlooks for the next few Days indicate mild dry conditions to the West but Winnipeg will be under the front with periods of Cloud cover and Snow flurries. Temperatures arc expected to average above Normal. Normally in the last m Eek. O f january temperatures average from overnight lows of -25c to afternoon highs of -14c. Mildest Jan. 23 occurred in 1942 when tempera Tures Rose to a thawing so degrees but in 1936 it was coldest with a minimum of -42c. Deputy minister for planning. Social affairs minister Denis Lazure has ordered the department to revise a study undertaken by the previous government into Revenue guarantee programs tto deter mine eligibility or. Aubert said. That study set the eligibility level for a Low income wage earner with a family at about families fell within that category at the time of the study. Such a Revenue guarantee system in 1975 would have Cost million. Former so Cial affairs minister Claude forget said the plan could not be implemented until 1978 and depended heavily on the e state of the Economy agree ments with Ottawa and administrative changes. Deaths Barnabe Eugene Joseph 53, of Victoria husband of Eileen Barnabe. Bernhardt Maria 75, of Bethania personal care Home widow of Phillip Bernhardt. Cairns Adam so of Crys Tal City Man., widower of Matilda Jane Cairns. Dufresne Marie de Liesse 83, of Ste. Anne Man. Ellis Vera Mae of 14 be Witt Bay St. James Assiniboia wife of David Ellis. Lepage. Joseph 64 Island on husband of Irene Lepage. Mccullough Alice Trice of Winnipeg. Mitoska Pauline 77, of 969 i n k s t e r Boulevard widow of Mike Mitoska. Nicholson Helen 87, of Winnipeg widow of fran. Cis Nicholson. Nordal Sigrun ;