Flood Watch issued for central, southern, and eastern Utah through Saturday night as tropical moisture moves into the state

SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Happy Thursday, Utah! Our Thursday brings the state of an active period of weather for Utah, as tropical moisture streams north, mixing with an upper-level low moving towards the state. This will bring increasing rain chances back to the Beehive state from south to north into the weekend. Right now, the wettest period looks to be Friday into Saturday.

Temperatures will remain above average for our Thursday, before dropping again this weekend as the next upper low moves overhead. This system does have the potential to bring more decent rain totals for the valleys and snow totals for the mountains above 7,000 FT. The heaviest rainfall looks to be targeting SE Utah where totals between 1-2″+ will be likely. Flood Watches are in effect for all of southern and eastern Utah through Saturday night. The rest of the area could pick up an average of 0.50″-1.00″ which would be another big rain event for northern Utah.

We will begin to dry out to wrap up the weekend, but another system could flirt with the area by the middle of next week, although the models are split on that one for now.

We’ll keep you posted on the latest developments in our 4Warn Weather forecast both on-air and online, we are Good4Utah!