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Area forecast discussion 
National Weather Service Salt Lake City Utah 
950 am MDT Monday Oct 6 2008 


Synopsis...high pressure will build over the area today through 
Tuesday. Next cold system dropping south out of western Canada 
will move into the eastern Great Basin through the latter part of 
the week and remain through the weekend. 


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Discussion...short lived upper ridge is building into the west 
today and will remain into Wednesday morning. Precipitation has 
abated for the most part and all that remains are a few low clouds 
which should also be gone by afternoon. A band of clouds on 
infrared satellite across southern Idaho is moving southeast in 
the mean west northwesterly flow aloft. These clouds should also 
dissipate before getting to Utah as they hit the drier sinking 
air under the ridge. Temperatures should rebound back to near 
normal values by Tuesday. No updates needed this morning. 


Pretty quiet couple of days as we await the next upstream system. 
This system appears much colder than the past weekend but models 
disagree in timing and location at this time. 


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Aviation...VFR conditions will prevail throughout the day at the 
slc terminal. Southeast winds are expected to shift to the northwest 
between 16z and 17z and remain through middle evening. 


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Fire weather...a strong inversion will prevail across the region 
through Wednesday. While transport winds are moderately strong over 
southern Utah under this inversion this morning winds will be 
decreasing this afternoon. The clearing index is not expected to 
improve until Wednesday afternoon over the western valleys and not 
until Thursday over the rest of the area. A dry cold front will be 
the reason for this improvement on Thursday. 


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Slc watches/warnings/advisories... 
Utah...none. 
Wyoming...none. 


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Public/aviation...Young 
fire weather......struthwolf 


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