On Thursday afternoon, the temperature hit 100 degrees in Salt Lake City for the first time this year — week later than usual, according to the National Weather Service.
(The average date is July 4, based on the last 30-year climate period, 1981-2010.)
It was not even close to the latest the century mark has been reached in Utah’s capital city, however, because there have been 47 years when the temperature never hit 100 degrees at all, according to the NWS – most recently in 2004.
For years that the high did reach 100 degrees at least once, the latest in the year that happened was Aug.