Temperatures in northern Utah will flirt once more with records through the midweek as smoke from wildfires in Montana, California and Oregon makes already poor air quality worse in the Wasatch Front’s valleys.
On Monday, Salt Lake City tied its 2010 record high at 98 degrees and Duchesne’s 91 also matched a 1948 mark. Kanab, in sun-drenched southern Utah, broke a 1955 record of 99 with a 101-degree reading, as did Kodachrome Basin at 98 (4 degrees better than its 1995 mark).
Wednesday’s highs in the state’s capital were forecast to reach 96, 2 degrees shy of the record for the date, but still a degree warmer than Tuesday’s 95 (2 degrees below record-setting territory).