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SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s capital tied an 88-year-old temperature file on Friday because the excessive temperature at Salt Lake Metropolis Worldwide Airport surpassed 80 levels for the primary time this 12 months.
Salt Lake Metropolis’s official temperature reached 81 levels shortly after 3:30 p.m., matching a each day file set in 1936, in keeping with the Nationwide Climate Service.
The company notes it is the town’s first 80-degree day since Oct. 10. Salt Lake Metropolis’s common first 80-degree day of the 12 months is Could 3, however the file is March 31, which was set in 2012.
The record-tying heat is linked to a storm system off the Pacific Coast, which helps push heat air from the south into Utah, mentioned KSL meteorologist Matt Johnson.
The system additionally introduced in some clouds Friday afternoon; he mentioned clouds will come and go over the weekend. Excessive temperatures are anticipated to stay within the mid-to-upper 70s on Saturday and higher 60s on Sunday.
The small storm is predicted to herald some valley rain and mountain snow throughout a number of components of the state Sunday evening and Monday morning, however it would additionally drop excessive temperatures again into the 50s and low 60s throughout the Wasatch Entrance, Johnson mentioned. Further showers are additionally attainable subsequent week.
“It is that point of the 12 months. We will not have the highest of the curler coaster the entire time. We do have some dips,” Johnson mentioned.
The cooldown is predicted to assist decelerate Utah’s snowpack runoff that’s now underway, in order that it does not all soften directly.
Full seven-day forecasts for areas throughout Utah might be discovered on-line, on the KSL Climate Middle.
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