Historic winter: Utah ties 40-year snowpack record with Friday storm

This winter is one for the books, officially. The statewide average snow water equivalent, which is essentially the amount of moisture in the snowpack, surpassed 26 inches on Friday, tying a decades long record and making the winter of 2022/23 one of the wettest in Utah’s recorded history, according to U.S. Geological Survey data. Utahns along the Wasatch Front woke up to several inches of snow on Friday — by evening, the National Weather Service says the storm could deliver up to four inches in the valleys, with nearly two...