HOTTEST DAY EVER!!!

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) _ Saturday was the hottest day, ever, in Salt Lake City.

The 107.1 degrees recorded at Salt Lake City International Airport around 4 p.m. officially tied the record of 107 set on July 26, 1960, the National Weather Service reported. The temperatures are rounded off to the nearest tenth of a degree.

There were no deaths reported in connection with the heat.

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The Weather Service began keeping track of temperatures here in 1874. The average high for the day is 91 degrees. The old record high for the day was 102.

Southern Utah gets considerably hotter than Salt Lake City. The highest temperature on record in the state is 117 degrees, in St. George on the Arizona border, in 1985.

Officials in Utah urged residents to conserve electricity to avoid shortages. Federal regulators also raised the price cap for wholesale electricity in the West.

"A low energy price cap could cause severe supply disruptions," the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission said.

The commission boosted the maximum price from $55.26 per megawatt hour to $91.87. One megawatt is enough to power about 750 homes.

The heat has also created dangerous levels of smog in some areas, triggering advisories that people with respiratory conditions should stay indoors and healthy people should limit outdoor activity.

July 13, 2002