Warm today before active end to workweek

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) – Happy Wednesday Utah, we are halfway through the workweek! Today’s weather will build off of recent days with above-average warmth, however, we’re about to move into a cooler and wetter pattern to close the workweek.

Today’s daytime highs will range about 10-15° above average under mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies with only a slight chance of a few showers this afternoon and evening. It will be a breezy day as well with winds out of the south. If you’re a fan of the warmth, make sure you enjoy today because changes are right around the corner.

By tonight we’ll be looking at increasing cloud across the state as moisture begins to increase ahead of our next storm moving in. By tomorrow, that storm will bring scattered showers across the Beehive State with the best chance coming to the northern two-thirds of the state.

Showers will mainly be valley rain and mountain snow with snow levels expected to stay above 7,000 ft. through the day tomorrow. Thunderstorms will also be possible. When it comes to temperatures, we’ll run about 10 degrees cooler than what we get this afternoon.

A second storm will move in between Friday and Saturday. This storm will bring widespread showers across the Beehive State with Friday likely being the wetter of the two days. We’ll continue to see mainly valley rain and mountain snow, however, with cooler air moving in, snow levels will drop a little more from Thursday. There’s a chance we see the snow levels briefly drop below 7,000 ft. Daytime highs will run about 15-25 degrees cooler than what we have today with mainly 40s and 50s up north and 50s and 60s down south outside of the high country.

Through Saturday, mountains above 8,000 ft. in Utah will have a chance to see accumulations of 6-12″ with locally up to 18″. In the Cottonwoods 8-14″ looks possible. Mountain valleys may see only rain while higher valleys could receive up to 2″. For our valleys and benches, we’re anticipating rain showers.

There is a silver lining to incoming wet weather for allergy sufferers. We’ve had a prolonged period of high pollen counts over the last couple of weeks, but wet weather can help clean out the air and reset pollen levels. The pollen count is forecasted to drop from high or extreme to a more manageable medium level on Friday.

Wet weather potential will begin to dip as we round out the weekend as our storm moves away. We’ll see calmer conditions take hold early next week along with a quick warm-up. By Monday we’ll likely be above average once again with highs near 70 along the Wasatch Front and low 80s in St. George. Temperatures will continue to warm through the middle of next week.

We’ll keep tracking the trajectory of the incoming storms and give you the latest developments. Until then enjoy the nice weather and stay up-to-date on the latest in our 4Warn Weather forecast both on-air and online, we are Good4Utah!

• Warm and mostly quiet today

• Slight chance of showers in northern Utah

• Few rumbles possible

• Active pattern to close the workweek

• 2 storms from Thu-Sat

• Sct’rd showers

• Valley rain/mtn snow

• Decent snow above 8,000 ft.

• Healthy moisture for valleys

• Much cooler

• Below average by Fri/Sat

• Calming and warming into next week

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