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Snowpack update: How record-breaking snow helped Utah’s snow totals get closer to average
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s ever-important snowpack, which got off on the wrong foot, is finally getting closer to average following several winter storms in a row — and there’s more on the way. None of the 16 Utah snowpack regions crossed 100%, or the baseline normal for Feb. 18, following the massive storm that …
Utah’s mask mandate, health orders will be extended through Thanksgiving
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah’s Department of Health intends to extend its public health orders that limit gatherings and impose a statewide mask mandate. During a briefing before the Utah State Legislature’s Interim Health & Human Services Committee, the executive director of UDOH also outlined for lawmakers what guidance they were giving for families who …
Record-breaking cold (and snow) are in Utah’s forecast
If it seems especially cold for October in Utah, it is. And it’s going to get even colder. If the National Weather Service forecast is correct, it’s about to be colder than any temperature ever recorded in Salt Lake City during the month. And, yes, it’s going to snow. Temperatures are running about 20 degrees …
Utah’s unusual ‘premarital exams’ for women are being rebranded as sexual health visits for everyone
Physician Jennifer Gunter was startled by a post she read on Reddit “from a woman whose fiancé insisted she have some kind of premarital exam.” “So, I Googled ‘premarital exam,’ wondering what a woman might find,” Gunter said in a Sept. 9 blog post. The first result was University of Utah Health. “I just about …