Green River, Emery County, had a record-breaking soggy July, according to the National Weather Service.
Storms dumped a "phenomenal 4.4 inches" on Green River, said William J. Alder, meteorologist in charge of the service's regional headquarters in Salt Lake City. The amount is 772 percent of the desert town's normal total precipitation for July.Not only was last month the wettest July since Green River observers started keeping records in 1893, but it was the wettest month the town ever experienced. The previous record, 4.39 inches, was in October 1972.
July's storms dropped "two-thirds of their annual rainfall amount of 6.52 inches," he added.
For Utah's capital, the month was much drier and slightly warmer than usual. Total precipitation in Salt Lake City was 0.25 of an inch, which is 31 percent of the normal 0.81 of an inch. The mean monthly temperature was 78.3 degrees, compared with a normal of 77.9 degrees.
Elsewhere, "it was dry in the northwest and rather monsoonal in the south and east," Alder wrote in the monthly climatological report. "Flash flooding occurred in several locations as heavy rains hit in a short period of time."