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Single-digit temperatures in Salt Lake City? -18 in Park City? That’s how 2019 begins.

(Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) High winds blow snow off of the rooftops in downtown Salt Lake City, Monday, Dec. 31, 2018.

The new year in Utah will begin like the old one ended — cold.

Temperatures are not expected to reach 30 degrees in Salt Lake City until Friday, according to the National Weather Service. Tonight is to be especially cold. The weather service predicts temperatures in the single digits in Salt Lake City.

That’s still better than Park City. New Year’s Day there could be as cold as 18 degrees below zero when accounting for windchill, the weather service says.

The next chance for snow on either side of the Wasatch Mountains is Saturday night, though the weather service says there’s only a 30 percent chance of that.

Even St. George is supposed to get down to 19 degrees on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Daytime temperatures will be in the 40s and 50s during the week. There’s also a chance of snow there Saturday.

For more information, go to https://www.sltrib.com/weather.