Utah
Salt Lake breaks 62-year-old triple-digit heat record; flood watch issued for southern Utah
Downtown Salt Lake Metropolis and the Salt Lake Valley are pictured on June 2. (Spenser Heaps, Deseret Information)
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SALT LAKE CITY — This month is now formally one for the report books in Utah’s capital metropolis.
The excessive temperature reached 100 levels at Salt Lake Metropolis Worldwide Airport Thursday afternoon, marking the sixteenth day this month the place temperatures reached triple-digits — probably the most of any month because the Nationwide Climate Service started gathering metropolis climate information in 1874. The earlier report was 15 days set in July 1960.
Excessive temperatures are presently forecast to stay near if not over 100 levels over the weekend, that means that one more report could fall within the coming days. Thursday’s 100-degree day was this 12 months’s nineteenth; the report for one 12 months is 21 days set in 1960 and matched in 1994 and 2021.
This month additionally stays on tempo to be Salt Lake Metropolis’s hottest month on report, and this summer time can be inching a bit nearer to different large Salt Lake Metropolis warmth data. The town has now reached no less than 90 levels for 37 consecutive days, which is 13 shy of the all-time report set in 1967. If the weekend forecast involves fruition, the present stretch will transfer into second place by the beginning of subsequent week.
And given the forecast, it is all however sure that July 2022 will be part of July 1960 and August 1967 as the one 31-day months the place temperatures reached no less than 90 levels every single day.
Storms and flooding down south
It is a completely different story down south, the place monsoonal moisture continues to pile on flooding dangers. Many components of central, southern and jap Utah stay beneath a flood watch by way of Friday night. The watch consists of cities and cities like St. George, Springdale, Worth, Kanab, Hanksville, Fort Dale, Emery and Inexperienced River.
“Extreme runoff could end in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and different low-lying and flood-prone places,” the Nationwide Climate Service wrote, within the alerts. Moreover, (there’s) elevated potential for flash flooding and particles circulate off of current burn scars.”
Search for widespread showers and thunderstorms at present with sluggish transferring storms able to producing heavy rain that might result in flash flooding. If you can be in a menace space, concentrate on your environment, plan an escape route ought to the necessity come up and keep alert. #COwx#UTwxpic.twitter.com/3PfmFIQHha
— NWS Grand Junction (@NWSGJT) July 28, 2022
The National Weather Service also tweeted that flooding is possible at Utah’s recreation locations in these areas Thursday and Friday, and most of these areas on Saturday, too. A number of the moisture may creep into Wasatch Entrance as early as Friday, in line with KSL meteorologist Matt Johnson.
Full seven-day forecasts for areas throughout Utah will be discovered on-line on the KSL Climate Middle.