SLC Snow
A heavy snow shower downtown right now. What are you seeing at your house!?
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas from our KSL family to yours! 🎄 P.S. peep the moment when I’m having to pull Casey away from licking the frozen street lamp 😂
INVERSION
Above the soup bowl today in the Salt Lake Valley! 🤢
Remember, this is part pollution and part fog.
📍: Oquirrh Mountains
📸: @heymisterthomas
BAD AQI
BAD AIR QUALITY: Today’s air quality is about the equivalent of smoking 1.9 cigarettes in 24 hours. This time-lapse shows pollutants swirling around in the low-level wind patterns within the inversion layer. Definitely not a day to be exercising outdoors 😷
We will break this inversion and clear the air with Friday’s system! Couldn’t come soon enough!
Inversion Layer
My buddy Jordan is a CFI and got this on his flight today. This inversion layer tops out at about 7,000 FT and will continue to be the theme until at least Friday this week. Air quality will decline as a result. 😷
📍: Salt Lake Valley, UT
📸 Jordan Woodfield
Cutting The Tree
Facebook mobile won’t let me upload more than 1 video at a time. So here’s a video of the TIMBER! 🪓 🌲
FIRST SNOW
THE SEASON’S FIRST SNOW: It’s official! Most of the Wasatch Front has received the first snowfall of the season today 11.24.23. Average first snow is Nov 8th, so a couple weeks late! Bountiful northward really didn’t see much thanks to east winds last night/this morning.
Comment below how much is at your house! ⬇️
Ken on the weather
Ken with the 7-day forecast! 😂
Eclipse from space
ECLIPSE FROM SPACE: We know what Saturday’s annular eclipse looked like from Earth, but what about space? The GOES-16 geostationary satellite from NOAA scans this side of Earth every 10 minutes. All those scans put together reveal an amazing motion picture of the moon’s shadow crawling across Earth’s surface! This is something that only modern-day technology could make possible. 🛰️
Annular Eclipse
RING OF FIRE: Central Utah saw complete annularity today with the moon eclipsing the sun around 10:28am. What a thing of wonder! This is a timelapse showing start to finish, what it looked like this morning.
Fun fact: If the moon was at its closest orbit point to earth, this would’ve been a total solar eclipse. The next total solar eclipse won’t be visible in Utah until August, 12, 2045
📍: Black Rock, UT
📸: John Michaelson
Guardsman Pass
Here’s another look from the aspen grove up at Guardsman Pass. Nothing short of spectacular!
Also, no edits, filters, enhancements or saturation adjustments! This is just golden hour at peak fall foliage! 🍁 🍂
Guardsman Pass
The show goes on this October 8th as the acclaimed aspen grove up at Guardsman Pass is in peak fall foliage form! 🍁
Straight To Winter
WINTER WONDERLAND: The mountains skipped fall and went straight to winter Monday. 6”+ of snow was reported at the highest ski resorts along the Wasatch Range. Jupiter Bowl was looking like a mid-January storm with freshly flocked evergreens and snow-covered ground.
Could it be a sign of things to come? We sure hope so 🤞
📍: Park City Mountain, UT
📸: @utahwxman
Provo Canyon
Luna’s Trail again today! Can’t get enough
A Utah County classic just barely starting to turn over! I think things could be vibrant this year from the looks of the start! 🍁 ⛰️
FLASH FLOOD: Kanab, Utah is no stranger to flash floods and Wednesday was a prime example of that. A heavy thunderstorm overwhelmed streets with .57” in a matter of minutes. Locals and tourists got caught in flood waters around town especially at Main St. and 300 S.
1📸: Kane Co Sheriff / Kanab
Here’s the cutest thing you’ll see on the internet today. I had a little weather helper today, Mak He has always been fascinated with the weather, so I gave him a tour and even had him do the 7-day forecast! He did such an awesome job!
Today reminded me of myself. All growing up I had people willing and ready to help me pursue my dream of being a meteorologist. Today I had the chance to pay it forward to a young aspiring meteorologist and fellow weather geek! You crushed it Mak!
We saw flash flooding in isolated pockets across the state Thursday and Cedar City got the brunt of it. 2” of rain in about an hours’ worth of time caused big time problems flooding streets, the jail and hospital! ⛈️
📍: Cedar City, UT
📸: Christine Christensen
UTAH FLASH FLOODS: Last Friday we talked about an “Easterly Wave” that could bring deep tropical moisture to the state. Here we are a week later and it has brought more than we can handle. Severe Thunderstorms with torrential rains over the last 48 hours have caused extensive flooding across the Wasatch Front.
Many of you have had to deal with flooded homes, basements, and streets. Rain totals with this push of tropical moisture have been BIG. Last night alone Draper saw 2.25” in less than an hour which prompted the city mayor Troy Walker to declare a State of Emergency. Kaysville north to Honeyville saw 2-5” of rain in the span of a few hours on different days.
The monsoon moisture takes a break for the next 7 or so. However, monsoon season could still bring another push before September ends.
📍: Draper, UT
📸: Stacy Russell
Shelf cloud leading the front line of a severe thunderstorm headed for SLC! ⛈️
