Due to utility work at the University of Utah data center, weather.utah.edu is expected to be down for approximately two days. Don't shoot the messenger.
In the meantime, enjoy the sunny, warm March weather and stop worrying about the next storm. The forecasts looked like spaghetti anyway, so who the hell knows what's going to happen.
In the meantime, for your entertainment purposes, there were some beautiful lenticular clouds over the central Wasatch yesterday.
Such clouds are produced by mountain waves, up and down motions produced by the interaction of the atmospheric flow with the topography. The clouds form where the flow is forced up and dissipate where the flow is forced down. The layering is produced by vertical variations in relative humidity, which causes saturation in areas of ascent to be reached at different levels of vertical displacement.
Lenticular clouds have been confused with flying saucers. Let's not let this start a social media conspiracy theory.
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