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Snow at Utah's surveyed mountains

Read . Tonight and the next five days are the Snowpack Instrument's.

9 mountains in Utah, most snow tonight first
MountainNew snow, 24 hoursBaseTonightNext 5 daysAvalanche danger
Alta0 in, Atwater1 in0 in0 in-
Brighton0 in, Brighton0 in0 in0 in-
Deer Valley0 in, Louis Meadow0 in0 in0 in-
Park City0 in, Mill Creek Canyon0 in0 in0 in-
Powder Mountain0 in, Powder Mountain0 in0 in0 in-
Snowbasin0 in, Ben Lomond Trail0 in0 in0 in-
Snowbird0 in, Cascade Mountain0 in0 in0 in-
Solitude0 in, Atwater1 in0 in0 in-
Sundance0 in, Timpanogos Divide0 in0 in0 in-

What is measuring in Utah

964 instruments still reporting in Utah, across 7 networks, each one with the kind of measurement it makes and how often it makes it. Open a place below to see which of them stand near it.

measured now557 instruments

Data-collection platforms

269 instruments/hourly

temp, wind, gust, humidity, pressure

Shore stations, fire weather stations and river gauges on one identifier. Most of them measure the river and are never offered here; the ones that are published air temperature and wind. A platform that was quiet when the catalogue was built is still listed, because it remains registered with its network. It is the only shoreline wind this service carries.

Road weather towers

215 instruments/minutes

temp, pavement temp, wind, visibility, precip

Air temperature, pavement temperature, wind and visibility, placed where the road closes. The right instrument for a blowing-snow answer and almost nobody uses it well.

Airport surface observations

37 instruments/minutes

temp, wind, gust, visibility, precip, pressure

The backbone. Individual sensors fail and the station does not, so every reading is published with the age of the observation beside it.

Soil climate stations

34 instruments/hourly

temp, humidity, soil temp, soil moisture

Air and soil together: temperature and moisture measured in the ground at depth, hourly, mostly on farms and research land.

Climate reference stations

2 instruments/hourly

temp, humidity, wind, solar, precip

The national reference: triple sensors for temperature and precipitation, sited well away from buildings and paving, and kept to one standard across the country. The yardstick the other instruments are measured against.

measured daily407 instruments

Volunteer precipitation and snow observers

291 instruments/once a day

precip, snowfall, snow depth

The same measurement a cooperative observer makes, from many more gardens. Utah publishes 291 of these against 116 cooperative observers, so on most days it is the densest picture of what is on the ground that exists.

Cooperative observers

116 instruments/once a day

snowfall, snow depth, precip, high, low

A person, a board and a ruler, in the morning. It cannot say what is falling right now and it is the best answer to how much is on the ground.

Every place in Utah

26 places, each with its own forecast and its own instruments.