Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Recent Record Breakers in Utah

May 6-9, 2010
Many record low temperatures around the state have been broken. *

May 5, 2010
Record low temperature in Randolph of 13F beating the old record of 17F set in 2001.*


April 28, 2010
Record high minimum temperature for Bryce Canyon Airport of 44F beating the old record set in 1983 of 35F. Hanksville also had a record high minimum of 60F beating the old record of 57 set in 2003. *


Aoril 20, 2010
Record high minimum temperature reported for the Salt Lake City Airport of 55F beating the old record of 53 set in 1980.*


April 11, 2010
Record High Minimum temperatures reported in Utah for April 11th:
Alta - 38F beat 32F in 1992
Salt Lake City Airport - 52F tied 52F in 1985
Tooele - 58F beat 54F in 1916 *

March 20, 2010
A record low temperature was hit at Bryce Canyon Airport of -1F at 7:10pm breaking the old record of 2F set in 1964.*

March 17, 2010
Randolph, Utah hit a new record high temperature of 60F, beating the old record of 59F set in 2007. *

March 9, 2010
A record precipitation of 0.51 inches was set at Ceder City. This breaks the old record of 0.48 inches set in 2006.*

A record snowfall of 2.5 inches was set a Salt Lake City on March 6th. The old record was 2.4 inches set in 1980.

On January 21st at 11:29 pm Salt Lake City recorded an all time low mean sea level pressure of 28.94 inches. The previous record was set in April of 2002 at 29.00 inches.
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*(Source: National Weather Service, http://www.weather.gov/climate/getclimate.php?wfo=slc)