Air Quality and Pollution
The valleys of the Wasatch Front of northern Utah experience their greatest concentrations of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and particulates from November through February. Ozone reaches …
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FROM THE UTAH WEATHER ALMANAC
There’s history in the forecast.
In 1954, areas around the Virgin River drainage had the "worst flood in 90 years." More than $500,000 in damage was done in Orderville, Glendale and and Springdale. More than 2 inches of rain fell in Orderville in a cloudburst. Lightning also set a stack of hay on fire in Woodruff.
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PHOTO OF THE DAY · October 8
Snow in Ivins
Enough snow fell on March 9-10, 2006, in Ivins (Southwestern), Utah, to make a snowman! Photograph by Betty James; courtesy of ABC4-KTVX Television.
Betty James
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