OK, time for a check now of the full forecast.
Chief Meteorologist Alana Brophy has what we need to know
a lot.
OK, Brian, some changes are brewing.
And that means for Father's Day weekend,
we get a different weather pattern.
Want to show you time lapse video coming out of
Black Desert because we started in Washington County with clear
skies.
But you're going to see that southwesterly flow drag the
moisture in.
And that's when we got the cloud cover.
It capped daytime heating in southern Utah.
And it took a while for those clouds to show
up along the Wasatch Front.
They're here tonight. Satellite radar showing echoes of moisture toward
South Central and southeastern Utah,
and that's continuing to push N the cloud cover arriving
from the Wasatch Front.
I pull back so you can see where this is
coming from.
There's an area of low pressure that will cross the
state into tomorrow and that keeps active skies for a
portion of Utah.
Great sunset photo coming from the Great Salt Lake.
Thank you to Scott Taylor showing the cloud cover that
moved in after the hottest day of
2024. We know there's more of that with summer ahead.
We got triple digits in several locations,
not just Salt Lake, Moab,
Hanksville, Lake Powell. Lots of 90s for the I-15 corridor.
Upper 90s in Vernal today.
So hot day across the board.
We're ahead of schedule for this triple digit heat.
Typically we don't see it until July 7th.
Last week we saw our 90 plus degree days and
here we are with our first 100
as we look at numbers right now still fairly mild
cloud cover will do that locks it in like a
blanket a little bit.
84 in Salt Lake. You step out and you're going
wait a second.
Aren't we supposed to cool down?
We will, but we not as much as we typically
do.
80s and 90s on the eastern side of the state.
89 in Saint George. Here's an hour by hour to
show you that we're only going to drop into the
mid 70s.
That's one of the criteria for a heat advisory and
that's why hours with mostly cloudy skies for the overnight
stays in effect until 6:00 AM.
This includes the Wasatch Front,
the Gray Salt Lake desert and mountains.
It's been effect since Wednesday at 11:00 AM and it
holds on.
Speaking of dry, it's Thursday.
Newest drought monitors out. We check these numbers
as much as possible. And as you look,
the eastern side of the state and southern Utah in
that abnormally dry category.
But I love seeing this after a solid snow year
because more than
76% of the Beehive State not battling drought conditions.
Good news there and we take a win wherever we
can get it.
Unfortunately, in the South it is dry and when you
add heat and wind,
you get fire concerns and those hold on for Father's
Day weekend with a new fire weather watch including lower
Washington County all the way over to Glen Canyon into
King County near Kanab. A fire start could spread quickly.
We'll see what happens with this watch could be upgraded
to a red flag warning.
We of course will keep you forward.
We warned. Futurecast shows the moisture on the move tonight.
Here we go into the overnight towards Grand Staircase,
Four Corners up into Moab.
Watch as that moisture pushes N,
most of that energy now skewing a little further E
than initially.
So we are going to see right on the state
line that storm development and scattered showers as we get
through the overnight into Friday.
Daytime heating pops up and we see thunderstorm potential towards
the basin and maybe a few pop up storms near
Castle Country as we get into the afternoon and evening.
Can't rule it out for the Wasatch Front.
It's really a slight chance,
but you notice that influx of cloud cover by tomorrow
night on ABC4 News at 10.
The good news, temperatures are going to dip.
OK, I did 100 today.
I don't really want to do it again tomorrow.
Are you with me? Maybe you like the heat.
That's OK, it'll come back.
Flashlight potential still possible in southeastern Utah.
A lot of those locations.
This could update tomorrow because the moisture is skewing further
E.
We'll see what happens. High temp trend.
Looks like a ski slope that'll cool you off through
Father's Day.
We get to average and then dip below.
Something to look forward to.
If you're not a fan of the heat,
Washington County also see some seasonal temperatures popping up.
That will feel really nice.
Nice. They've been triple digits for a long time.
Barely getting any relief from the heat,
but some is ahead. 90s for tomorrow,
low 90s. Still above average for this time of year.
About 10° in Salt Lake.
80s and 90s on the eastern side of the state.
They will see the most drastic temperature drop.
About 10 to 15° there.
101 in Saint George. I know it's coming.
Hold on. I'll show you as you look at the
next 7
down there in Washington County by Father's Day,
you're at one O 2.
But there are those 90s and we actually dropped below
average a little bit there.
Wasatch Front also going to change remaking plans for Dad.
Saturday is going to be hotter than Sunday if you
want to be outdoors throughout the state.
Wasatch Front 90s turning to 80s to hello 70s stay
awhile and they do through Wednesday.
And I'm like high five.
You're so cute. Back to the 80s,
which I also love, but I'll take a stretch of
70s for sure.
Earned it at that. I feel like that's true.