A pair of low-pressure systems, in the Pacific Northwest and Southwest, will help bring scattered showers and thunderstorms over the next few days, as it did Monday. This, according to Wessler, likely has something to do with a pattern impacting Utah this week. Summer precipitation is less certain at the moment, though the Climate Prediction Center acknowledges that parts of northern Utah have a stronger probability of above-normal precipitation in June. In fact, 12 of the 13 hottest summers in Utah history have come since 2000, according to National Centers for Environmental Information data. Last year was Utah's eighth-hottest meteorological summer since 1895, while 2021's average of 73 degrees is the hottest on record. If the outlook comes to fruition, it would continue the trend of the past few summers. (Photo: National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center) This map, released by the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center on Thursday, shows the temperature outlook for the meteorological summer months of June, July and August. It lists Utah as having about a 50% to 70% probability of above-normal temperatures over the span of June, July and August, with southeast Utah having the strongest odds for summertime heat. The Climate Prediction Center's long-range outlook indicates it's more probable than not that this trend will continue throughout the meteorological summer months. Wessler said many other parts of the state are experiencing similar bumps above regional normals. "We are just in a setup, in a pattern, where we're just in this continual warmer-than-average temperatures," he told KSL.com on Monday.įor example, Salt Lake City's average temperature of 65.7 degrees, as of Monday, puts this month on pace to be the city's second-warmest May on record and 4.2 degrees above its 1991-2020 normal, according to weather service data. It's helped bring in more warm air from the south, resulting in warmer temperatures. The pattern of below-normal temperatures really began to end this month as the low-pressure systems that came across the state became weaker and more high-pressure systems have set up, says National Weather Service meteorologist Michael Wessler. It ended April with an average temperature of 32.2 degrees Fahrenheit, which was 2.3 degrees below the 20th-century average and the 21st coldest first third of a year since the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration began tracking statewide data in 1895. Utah is off to an abnormally cold start to the year mostly because of all the storms it has received so far this year. The agency says Utah is likely in for another hot summer, but it's still too early to know if it will be wetter or drier than normal over the months of June, July and August. It appears that warmer-than-normal temperatures will continue into the summer however, it's not exactly clear if the robust precipitation of the past few months will follow, according to a new long-range outlook issued by the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center. Utah's snowpack has dropped 10.7 inches over the past two weeks, ending Monday at 7.7 inches, or a little more than a quarter of the peak collected this season, according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The snowpack continues to melt at a blistering rate in the mountains as warmer-than-normal temperatures in May are helping pick up the snowmelt pace. That long winter led to a record 30-inch statewide snowpack by April 8, a week shy of meteorological spring's halfway point. SALT LAKE CITY - Meteorological summer is just around the corner, which may surprise some in Utah after the seemingly never-ending winter the state experienced this year.
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