Today is forecast to be Much Cooler than yesterday.
Forecast for Glen Canyon Recreation Area/Lake Powell
Updated: 6:07 am MDT on May 12, 2008
Today
Windy. Partly cloudy in the morning...then mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Cooler. Highs around 80. West winds 20 to 30 mph.
Breezy. Rain showers likely and a chance of thunderstorms in the evening...then a chance of rain showers after midnight. Cloudy. Lows in the upper 40s. West winds 15 to 25 mph shifting to the north 10 to 20 mph around midnight. Chance of precipitation 60 percent.
Tuesday
A chance of rain showers in the morning...then a slight chance of rain showers in the afternoon. Partly cloudy. Cooler. Highs around 70. North winds 10 to 20 mph. Chance of showers 40 percent.
... Red flag warning remains in effect until 4 PM MDT this afternoon for strong west winds and low relative humidity for fire weather zone 440 below 6500 feet...
A red flag warning remains in effect until 4 PM MDT this afternoon due to strong winds and low relative humidity across south central Utah below 6500 feet.
Strong westerly winds... with gusts in excess of 35 mph... will develop across south central Utah by mid morning and combine with low relative humidity to produce severe fire weather conditions through 4 PM MDT.
A red flag warning means that severe fire weather conditions are either occurring now... or will shortly.
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Public Information Statement
Statement as of 8:15 am MDT on May 12, 2008
A cold front remains across central Utah this morning... bringing strong winds... valley rain and mountain snow. Below are preliminary precipitation totals and wind gusts through 8 am Monday.
... Preliminary storm information...
***** precip reports ***** time precip
... Cache Valley/Utah portion... Smithfield - 4760 ft 4 am Mon 0.33 Mendon - 4524 ft 5 am Mon 0.32 Logan - 4455 ft 4 am Mon 0.30 Logan Airport - 4452 ft 4 am Mon 0.21
... Northern Wasatch front... Centerville - 4383 ft 5 am Mon 0.22 Bountiful bench - 4990 ft 5 am Mon 0.20 Beus Canyon RAWS - 5100 ft 5 am Mon 0.15 Layton - 4800 ft 5 am Mon 0.13 South Ogden - 4780 ft 5 am Mon 0.12 Syracuse - 4255 ft 5 am Mon 0.11 Bountiful - 4760 ft 5 am Mon 0.09 Ogden Airport - 4468 ft 4 am Mon 0.09 Hill Air Force Base - 4787 ft 4 am Mon 0.08
... Salt Lake and Tooele valleys... avenues 7 am Mon 0.37 Herriman - 4957 ft 5 am Mon 0.33 olympus Cove - 5070 ft 5 am Mon 0.27 Midvale - 4505 ft 4 am Mon 0.16 sugarhouse - 4615 ft 5 am Mon 0.15 South Salt Lake 6 am Mon 0.17 univ of Utah - 4910 ft 5 am Mon 0.15 Salt Lake City Intl Airport - 4226 ft 4 am Mon 0.09 sugarhouse - 4400 ft 5 am Mon 0.08
... Southern Wasatch front... Provo Airport - 4498 ft 5 am Mon 0.06 Pleasant Grove RAWS - 5200 ft 4 am Mon 0.02
... Great Salt Lake Desert and mountains... English Village Dugway mnet - 4788 ft 5 am Mon 0.11 lower Cedar mtn Dugway mnet - 4495 ft 5 am Mon 0.09 target S Dugway mnet - 4349 ft 5 am Mon 0.09 playa station Dugway mnet - 4280 ft 5 am Mon 0.07 Simpson Springs Dugway mnet - 4645 ft 5 am Mon 0.05 Interstate 80 Dugway mnet - 4125 ft 5 am Mon 0.05
... Wasatch mountains I-80 north... snowbasin mid bowl - 7402 ft 5 am Mon 0.34 snowbasin base - 6316 ft 5 am Mon 0.23
... Wasatch mountains south of I-80... Alta Collins - 9662 ft 5 am Mon 0.26 Deer Valley daly west - 8199 ft 5 am Mon 0.06 Suncrest - 6100 ft 5 am Mon 0.04 Sundance - 7503 ft 5 am Mon 0.04
... Western Uinta Mountains... Aspen mtn - 7539 ft 5 am Mon 0.21 blacks Fork Commissary - 8820 ft 4 am Mon 0.09 Bear River RAWS - 8536 ft 5 am Mon 0.06 blacks Fork - 8901 ft 3 am Mon 0.01
... Wasatch Plateau/Book Cliffs... Scofield dam - 7630 ft 4 am Mon 0.02
... West central Utah... Fish Springs Dugway mnet - 4282 ft 5 am Mon 0.04
... Southwest Wyoming... Evanston 1 E - 6825 ft 4 am Mon 0.11 Evanston Airport - 7162 ft 5 am Mon 0.08 Muddy Creek RAWS - 6970 ft 4 am Mon 0.01
***** wind reports ***** windspeed
Wendover Peak Tooele mnet - 5087 ft 83 mph Lehi - 4790 ft 70 mph Interstate 80 Dugway mnet - 4125 ft 65 mph Deer Creek dam chute - 6670 ft 62 mph Sundance arrowhead - 8251 ft 62 mph Signal Peak RAWS - 8792 ft 61 mph Wendover Airport - 4236 ft 61 mph Hat Island - 4242 ft 60 mph Otter Creek RAWS - 7160 ft 59 mph Callao gate Dugway mnet - 4250 ft 59 mph target S Dugway mnet - 4349 ft 59 mph Fish Springs Dugway mnet - 4282 ft 58 mph snowbasin Straw top - 8999 ft 58 mph trans Jordan landfill - 5201 ft 58 mph
Horizontal grid Dugway mnet - 4261 ft 57 mph Salt Flats Dugway mnet - 4265 ft 57 mph juliet Road Dugway mnet - 4324 ft 56 mph Pleasant Grove RAWS - 5200 ft 56 mph Baker lab Dugway mnet - 4294 ft 56 mph Callao Dugway mnet - 4530 ft 56 mph Ogden peak - 9570 ft 56 mph west of Wildcat Dugway mnet - 4259 ft 55 mph Rosebud RAWS - 4987 ft 55 mph playa station Dugway mnet - 4280 ft 54 mph Herriman - 4957 ft 54 mph Gunnison Island dnr - 4242 ft 53 mph Cedar Fort Tooele mnet - 5200 ft 53 mph Cedar Mountain RAWS - 4650 ft 51 mph Milford Airport - 5039 ft 51 mph Pony express marker Tooele mnet - 5098 ft 51 mph upper Cedar mtn Dugway mnet - 7052 ft 51 mph flux Tooele mnet - 4219 ft 51 mph Stockton Bar Tooele mnet - 5161 ft 51 mph tower grid Dugway mnet - 4346 ft 50 mph lower Cedar mtn Dugway mnet - 4495 ft 50 mph i15 at Willard Poe udot mnet - 4220 ft 50 mph Mud Spring RAWS - 5902 ft 50 mph Joes valley RAWS - 8700 ft 50 mph
