As summer reaches its zenith in Salt Lake City, the National Weather Service predicts a stretch of warm and mostly clear weather patterns in the upcoming days. According to the National Weather Service, locals can expect sunny skies with daytime highs flirting with the mid-90s and nighttime lows settling comfortably in the mid-60s.
On the immediate horizon, temperatures are slated to reach a high near 93 degrees today with a calm east-southeast wind that will sway to the south in the afternoon. For those enjoying the clear evening skies, overnight temperatures will dip to a low of around 65. For Friday, the city will bask under sunny skies once again, crowning at a high near 94 degrees while the wind pattern from the daytime persists into the evening.
The weekend should bring a slight shift, with a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms developing Saturday afternoon. While the mornings promise to be mostly sunny with highs again near 92, residents should be mindful of the potential for precipitation and thunderstorm activity later in the day, lingering into Saturday night.
A notable upturn in storm probabilities emerges for Sunday afternoon, bumped up to a 40 percent chance of rain and thunderstorms. Despite this, the expected daytime highs will hover near the 92-degree mark beneath mostly sunny skies. Come Monday, the city anticipates a continuation of potential afternoon storms, painting a similar climactic tableau as the weekend.
Weather patterns suggest that this sporadic chance of rainfall could stretch into the early days next week, but Sunny conditions dominate the forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday, spiraling upwards to highs near 94 and 95, respectively.
