A warm, occasionally wet weekend is coming for the Wasatch Front, and storm clouds will combine with near triple-digit temperatures to make southern Utah both hot and humid.
Perhaps only Shakira would enthusiastically welcome such prospects. “I’m like a mosquito,” the Colombian singer and dancer once said. “I love humidity. I don’t sweat.”
Well, the rest of us do. Welcome to mid-August in perspiring Utah, with its monsoonal visitation. Specifically, the National Weather Service blames an upper-atmospheric ridge of moist air, slowly rotating over northern and central and southern Utah over the next several days.
Saturday in the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys will dawn partly cloudy before reaching the upper-90s in the afternoon, up a few degrees from Friday.