Alta’s Albion Basin at sunrise on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. Meteorologists are predicting snow on the peaks of the High Wasatch and Uintas later this week. Photo: Alta Webcam
PARK CITY, Utah — As a cold weather depression moves into northern Utah this week, meteorologists are predicting high-elevation snowfall Wednesday and beyond.
Wind and thunderstorms are expected to develop in Utah as the low sinks into the Great Basin on Tuesday. Temperatures will be noticeably cooler on Wednesday, with highs in Salt Lake City just above 20 degrees and up to 10 to 15 degrees in Park City.
Evan Thayer of OpenSnow is forecasting snow for the high Uintas and the high peaks of the Wasatch Mountains. The National Weather Service report for Alta calls for snow showers between 9 a.m. and noon Thursday, followed by rain and possibly thunderstorms after noon Thursday, possibly into Thursday night with lows of 36 degrees.
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Marina Knight began her journalism career in 2003 at The Stowe Reporter, where she first worked as an editor and later as a web editor. She covered the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics and has worked as a freelance writer on nature and art criticism. Most recently, Knight was editor-in-chief of SkiRacing.com. She has won several New England Newspaper Association awards for environmental reporting, feature stories and art criticism. She lives in Park City with her family. In her free time, she can be found in the mountains.
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