Check your air quality from wildfire smoke this weekend! - Friday, July 26

Published: Jul 26, 2024 Duration: 00:02:41 Category: News & Politics

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ACRES. WE DON'T NEED MORE. WILDFIRES IN UTAH ARE RIGHT NOW, ESPECIALLY WITH THE LIGHTNING AND THAT KIND OF STUFF GOING ON OUT THERE. AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE PLENTY OF WILDFIRE SMOKE MOVING INTO OUR STATE THIS WEEKEND FROM FIRES THAT ARE BURNING OFF TO OUR WEST. SO >> WE'VE GOT A LOT HAPPENING OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS RIGHT NOW HERE IN SALT LAKE. IT'S 89 DEGREES. I'M METEOROLOGIST ALLISON CROGHAN. LET'S TALK ABOUT HOW THE WEATHER WILL IMPACT YOUR WEEKEND. HERE ARE THE MAIN WEATHER HEADLINES TRACKING SOME SCATTERED STORMS. WE'RE LOOKING AT POTENTIAL FOR SOME WIND GUSTS THAT COULD BE STRONG 50 PLUS MILES PER HOUR. AND MAYBE EVEN SOME ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING PRIMARILY INTO FAR NORTHERN UTAH FOR TOMORROW. AND THEN WE'VE GOT SOME WILDFIRE SMOKE THAT WILL BE MOVING IN. SO WE'LL GO AHEAD. WE'LL START WITH THAT BECAUSE IF YOU'RE WAKING UP IN SOUTHWEST UTAH TOMORROW MORNING, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT SMOKE MOVING IN AND THEN HERE ACROSS NORTHERN UTAH AND INTO THAT IS WHERE WE'RE GOING TO KEEP THE BULK OF OUR HEAVIEST SMOKE HEADING INTO THE WEEKEND. BUT ONCE WE GET INTO SUNDAY, THERE'S A CHANCE STARTS TO MAKE ITS WAY HERE INTO YOU. TAP. WE ALSO HAVE RED FLAG WARNINGS THAT HAVE BEEN ISSUED SATURDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT FOR MOST OF THE STATE ABOUT MI 5 FURTHER SOUTH. THIS ALSO INCLUDES UP TOWARDS PRICE AND THIS WILL BE AN AREA WHERE ANY FIRES THAT START CAN AND WILL SPREAD VERY QUICKLY. WELL, TALK WEATHER PRECIPITATION CHANCES BECAUSE HERE IN SALT LAKE, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A CHANCE FOR SOME VALLEY RAIN THROUGHOUT THE DAY TOMORROW IN OUR BEST CHANCES. WE'LL BE EARLIER IN THE DAY. AND FOR TONIGHT, WE MIGHT EVEN HEAR SOME RUMBLES OF THUNDER AND MAYBE EVEN SEE SOME LIGHTNING OFF IN THE DISTANCE WHERE WE'RE SEEING MOST OF THAT LIGHTNING RIGHT NOW IS OUT TOWARDS THE WEST DESERT. SO DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU ARE, IF YOU'RE UTAH I FEEL IS LIGHTNING OFF IN THE DISTANCE RIGHT NOW THE STORMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING SOME WIND GUSTS 45 PLUS MILES PER HOUR. AND THEN AS WE LOOK ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN UTAH, WE HEAD INTO THE NEXT COUPLE OF WELL, SOMEWHAT KEEP SOME MONSOONAL MOISTURE IN PLACE WHERE WE COULD SEE SOME POCKETS OF HEAVY RAINFALL. SO TOMORROW 07:00AM 60'S AND 70'S HERE ACROSS THE STATE. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE OUR TEMPERATURES THEN RISING TOMORROW, CLOSE TO 90 TO 95. JUST LIKE TODAY, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION IN OGDEN FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS, WIDELY SCATTERED FOR TOMORROW, ISOLATED BY SATURDAY NIGHT FOR PROVO. YOUR CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION. THAT WILL BE ISOLATED FOR SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT SAINT GEORGE OF THE HOT AND DRY 7 DAY FORECAST YOUR BACK CLOSE TO 107, TOWARDS THE END OF NEXT WEEK. AND YOU ARE DRY FOR NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS AND INTO EASTERN, YOU TAUGHT YOUR CHANCE OF PRECEPT. IT'S ALSO RATHER LOW. SO AS WE LOOK AT OUR EXCESSIVE RAIN OUTLOOK FOR TOMORROW, OUR BEST CHANCE FOR HEAVIEST RAINFALL WILL BE IN THE FAR NORTHERN PART OF THE STATE. 103, TOMORROW IN SAINT GEORGE. PATCHY SMOKE 100 ON SUNDAY CLOSE TO 105, TO 107, NEXT THURSDAY, FRIDAY. AND FOR US HERE IN

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