SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — You may be asking yourself, where did all the snow go? You’re not alone- this is one of the least snowy winters we’ve ever seen in the Beehive State and in Salt Lake City.
Meanwhile, several cities in the southeastern United States have better snow accumulation this year, some for the second year in a row! Locally, our snow totals are just pitiful, especially in our Northern Utah valleys along the Wasatch Front.
We are close to average precipitation in Utah valleys, but with this December being by far the warmest on record and a January running nearly 7 degrees above average so far and rising, the precipitation type when we did see storms has almost exclusively fallen as rain.
Salt Lake generally receives about 30 inches of snow by the end of January, but so far this season we’ve only seen a tragic 1/10th of an inch. Even then, the 0.1 inches of “snow” was from a fairly dry system and looked more like graupel, the small ice pellets we see in a wintry mix, not the “greatest snow on Earth.” The graupel was recorded at Salt Lake International Airport on December 27th making it the latest first snowfall ever recorded at the airport, and the second latest first snowfall in Salt Lake City…