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I am attempting to find out if we had measurable rain activity in theBountiful area on June 13th and 14th of this year. Your web site is excellent for recent weather but I could not find a history link. I work for an insurance company and we are trying to determine if a loss was caused by a microburst on the above mentioned days or a broken pipe from a week earlier. Could you please advise on this.
Thanks- If there is a better place to contact your weather group for this type of information please let me know.
Stephanie Christiansen
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I can't tell you how many of these questions we get each week. The information is available and most of the time it's free, but it's super hard to find. The best way to find this information (and of course, to not pay for it) is to use the University of Utah's Mesonet. This resource is priceless and has a ton of useful weather information, but finding it can be a challenge!
The link on the right is for the mesonet. When you get there, it's a really big page, so even on a fast computer, it will take a moment to load. Clearly, you are looking at a summary of today's weather, current weather and all that jazz. You want something in in the past.
There is a sensor in Bountiful, but even with just looking up history for fun or for professional reasons, you have to remember, that weather in different neighborhoods can be totally different! If the thunderstorm came up over one side of town and missed the other, and the sensor is on the side of town that didn't get any wind or rain, then your record report might not be what you are looking for.
When you get to the mesonet site, scroll down, on Observations and Summaries, be sure that Utah is selected, the on the right, under Product, you want Current Weather Summary. Click go and a large page will load slowly. You are now looking at current observations for Utah, but you need to change the setting at the top show you all networks. This under Settings and click "all networks" and that will get you there.
One the new page, there's a table at the top, it has the time in UTC (Universal time) and you can change it. Another link on the right can help you understand UTC time but basically we are 6 hours from UTC which uses a military clock. If UTC time is 18 UTC we are 12 on the military clock which is also 12 Noon. Or if it was 20 UTC, minus 6, is 14 Z (UTC and Z are the same) and 14:00 is 2 pm.
Once you set your time code on the top of the Mesonet, you can find the peak wind for any of those observing stations for that particular day. I'd definitely check a day before and the day after the time period your looking at.
As of now, on July 14th on Friday, it was just hot and dry and we had bad air quality. I don't recall any sort of wild activity, but look it up and see what you find, I could be mistaken.
Answered by KSL Meteorologist Dina Freedman.
