Click the link to read the article on the KUER website (David Condos). Here’s an excerpt:
September 2, 2025
It’s common for summer to be Utah’s dry season. But 2025 took things to another level. The main culprit was the missing monsoon — or as assistant state climatologist Jon Meyer designated it, a “non-soon”…Salt Lake City received just 0.35 inches of rain from June 1 to Aug. 24 — putting it on pace for the city’s fourth driest summer on record. That included 48 straight days with zero precipitation at the airport during the peak of summer heat from early July to mid-August. That’s the city’s longest such streak since 1963, and its sixth longest on record. Other Utah communities fared even worse. By Aug. 24, Bountiful, Provo and Logan were all on track for their driest summers on record. Meteorological summer runs from June through August…
Some monsoon moisture finally broke through in the last week of August. Communities from Salt Lake City to St. George to Logan got more rain in that one week than they’d received the entire summer up to that point. Still, it wasn’t nearly enough to claw Utah out of its summer deficit…Salt Lake City ended up with 1.1 inches of rainfall from June to August. That’s around half of its historical average from 1991-2020 and low enough to make it the city’s 29th driest summer in records that date back to 1874. Elsewhere, the late monsoon offered even less of a boost. Provo ended the season with less than a half-inch of rain, its third driest summer on record. Alta Ski Area in Little Cottonwood Canyon also ended up having its third driest summer, with just 1.29 inches of rain. And despite more than quadrupling its summer rainfall total in the final days of the month, Bountiful still ended the season with just under an inch of rain, making 2025 the city’s sixth driest summer on record. Ultimately, the late rains merely moved Utah from extremely dry to very dry, said National Weather Service senior meteorologist Monica Traphagan…Even in southern Utah, where the monsoon was a bit stronger, St. George ended up with only 0.66 inches of rain for the season — far below its historical average of 1.73 inches. And more than half of the summer rain St. George received came in the final days of August…
The seasonal forecast for fall doesn’t offer much optimism, either. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s outlook calls for above-average temperatures and below-average precipitation across the state through November.
