2025 Climate Report

 Hello hello, welcome to the Climate Report!

This is just going to be a rundown with some context of the year here in SLC. At some point I would love to do a more detailed rundown for the west, perhaps the country, and maybe even the globe, though at the moment I do not have time to do such things and the info is out there and not too terribly hard to find. 

Anyhow! 

The basics -

Temperature anomaly for the year - 3.5 degrees F above average.

Snow data - Total received 16 inches - Annual norm - 56.9 

Below is a graph depicting the average and observed precipitation as well.  

 
 
 
All of the data used in this is from NOAA using google sheets to do some basic averaging.
As you can see, wow it was a rough fucking year if you hate snow and heat and water. 
 
It kind of seems that many do honestly, they seem happy that it doesn't snow in the valley anymore and happy they can swim in their private pools nearly year round. Well, friends, yikes. We received nearly 5 inches of rain in a 2 day storm in the beginning of October, COOL! Except this is largely after the growing season and... well if you look at the graph, our rainfall was indeed abysmal the remaining months of the year. Again, yikes? How many times can I feel existential dread in a year? It's a lot actually. 
 
If we had not gotten all that rain in October (which ecologically speaking we might as well not have, kind of, it's definitely more nuanced than that, but for the sake of this argument I'm going with it and we can delve further into it in a moment), we would have received less than half of our normal average precipitation. When we look at the snowfall too, oh boy, the plants this coming spring are going to be hurting. The Great Salt Lake? What's that? You mean the arsenic and lead dust bowl? Delightful. 
 
Maybe you hate rain, snow, and cold, maybe that is you. That is really fine, but probably...hopefully, you don't hate plants and life and being alive? Right? Well, I hate to break it to you, but we (and all the other living things on this planet) very much need water. Regularly. 
 
 

 

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