Weather in Salt Lake City, May 1992

HIGHSFor the month (May 18) 89.0 degrees

Average this month 78.6 degrees

30-year average 72.4 degrees

Record (May 19, 1958) 93.0 degrees

LOWS

For month (May 2, 10) 41 degrees

Average this month 52.2 degrees

30-year average 45.2 degrees

Record (May 2, 1964) 39.0 degrees

SNOWFALL

Total 0.0"

30-year average 0.6"

Record (1975) 7.5"

PRECIPITATION

Total for month 1.86"

30-year average 1.47"

Most in 24 hrs. (May 21) 0.89"

May record (1977) 4.76"

Records set at Salt Lake weather station MAY 9: Record precipitation, 0.87 inch; previously, 0.76 in 1980.

MAY 12: Record precipitation, 0.89 inch; previously, 0.67 in 1981.

Second warmest May on record with an average temperature of 65.6 degrees. Warmest average temperature in May was 66.7 degrees in 1934.

Utah weather highlights

MAY 9: Welcome rain and thundershowers hit portions of Utah with the greatest amounts along the central Wasatch Front, the mountains and Four Corners area. The lake effect from the Great Salt Lake enhanced rainfall in Davis, Salt Lake and Utah counties. Heavy rains in Davis County caused a slide that hit a home on Valley View Drive in North Salt Lake. Two children sleeping in the basement escaped uninjured. Salt Lake Airport received 0.88 of an inch of rain, and Alta received 4 inches of snow.

MAY 15: A Utah State University student riding his bike home from school was knocked unconscious when lightning struck a tree under which he had taken regfuge.

MAY 25: A heavy rainstorm hit particularly hard in San Juan, Wayne and Washington counties. Flash flooding was 10 to 20 feet deep in Armstrong Canyon and 20 feet at Kachina Bridge, 2 1/2 miles southwest of park headquarters for Natural Bridges National Monument. Enterprise, Washington County, and Bicknell and Teasdale, Wayne County, received hail that was 3/4 to 1 inch in diameter and up to 4 inches deep in the Tropic Reservoir area. Intense rainfall: 1.15 inches, Natural Bridges; 1.10, Teasdale; and 1.25, Torrey, also Wayne County.

MAY 26: Hail, strong winds and heavy rain were widespread, hitting Salt Lake, Sevier, Uintah, Wayne and Carbon counties particularly hard. Several areas reported minor flooding, with 2 1/2 feet of water over U.S. 40 in the Jensen area east of Vernal. Western Wayne County had golf ball-size hail.

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MAY 27: Hail up to 1 1/2 inches in diameter and 2 inches deep peppered New Harmony, Virgin and Pintura, all in Washington County. Fruit trees, gardens and vehicles suffered extensive damage, as well as roofs and windows.

MAY 29: Flash flooding stranded hikers along the north fork of the Virgin River in Zion National Park. Plows were called to remove the hail in some areas.

May precipitation totals: Alta, 2.82 inches (91 percent of normal); Blanding, 2.33 (395 percent); Brigham City, 0.6 (31 percent); Heber City, 1.7 (144 percent); Holladay, 1.15 (49 percent); Provo-BYU, 1.62 (103 percent); Richfield, 1.41 (193 percent); and St. George, 0.75 (153 percent).

Source: Salt Lake office, National Weather Service

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