Salt Lake City got a lot of rain on Wednesday. Magna and West Valley City got twice as much.

On Wednesday, Salt Lake City got the most rain it's seen in a single day in more than six years — but not nearly as much as Magna and West Valley C...

August 3, 2023
7:48 PM

On Wednesday, Salt Lake City got the most rain it's seen in a single day in more than six years — but not nearly as much as Magna and West Valley City. Monsoon season hit the state hard. According to the National Weather Service, the state's capital city got 1.31 inches of precipitation, recorded at the Salt Lake International airport. That's the most since March 23, 2017, when 1.97 inches fell — the official record for a single day. (Unofficially, single-day rainfall of 2.3 inches was recorded in Salt Lake City on July 13, 1962, and Sept.

Scott D. Pierce