The National Weather Service in Salt Lake City issued a statement early this morning reinforcing a dense fog advisory for several valleys, including the Northern Wasatch Front and Salt Lake Valley. The advisory, effective until 11 AM MST, warns of visibility dropping to a quarter mile or less in certain areas. According to the National Weather Service, residents in affected regions should expect ice fog conditions a high humidity level of 92%, and temperatures hovering around 25°F.
Driving remains a concern for the morning hours as the dense fog is expected to make travel hazardous. The NWS has stressed that visibility could rapidly decrease, advising drivers to slow down, use their headlights, and leave plenty of distance ahead of them. The impacted locations include but are not limited to Ogden, Grantsville, Tooele, Salt Lake City, Vernon, West Jordan, and Bountiful. The advisory is set to improve midmorning, giving way to widespread haze but otherwise sunny skies with calm winds and highs near 44 degrees.
The dense fog is just a starting marker to a week that sounds to bring varied weather conditions. Post-fog conditions for Saturday forecast a continuation of the widespread haze, but with sunny skies and a calm wind, pushing the high near 45 degrees. However, the respite from adverse weather will be brief, as Sunday heralds a chance of rain and snow, with a 20% chance of precipitation and partly sunny conditions alongside a high near 45 degrees once again.
As the weekend comes to a close, weather conditions decidedly to shift, presenting a 30% chance of snow by Monday and a high of 37 degrees. Snow accumulation is expected to be less than a half-inch. Following into Tuesday and midweek, the skies are predicted to clear up, offering mostly sunny days and nighttime lows in the twenties, though another shift awaits as Thursday approaches with a return to mostly sunny skies and higher temperatures around 45 degrees.
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