Salt Lake City, UT weather
Right now 81°, clear · today 88° / 62°, sunny · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 81° · clear · wind SE 10 mph · 4° warmer than this time yesterday · at Salt Lake City, 11:40 AM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. South wind around 5 mph.
Seven days
Winter in Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City averages 49 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a regular snow place. Snow several times a winter, well-practised response. Closures happen but need a real storm.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 49 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 6 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Upper air over Salt Lake City
The nearest radiosonde launch is Salt Lake City, about 4 miles away. A weather balloon goes up twice a day and measures temperature, humidity and wind all the way through the atmosphere - which is what forecasters actually read to judge whether storms will fire, and how a surface forecast was arrived at.
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Salt Lake City (api.weather.gov), updated Mon, 6:31 AM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.