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Monday's rain welcomed, but Utah wildfire, drought concerns remain and last updated 2021-04-26 19:20:09-04 SALT LAKE CITY — Monday’s rainy, wet weather isn’t expected to be enough to get Utah out of serious trouble this summer. April showers bring May flowers, but near record rain in Salt Lake City won’t put a big dent in the state-wide drought. “This is wonderful and needed but this is not unexpected,” said Utah Snow Survey’s Jordan Clayton. Utah’s low snowpack doesn’t appear to be melting its way into reservoirs. Instead, the extremely dry soils ...

/ A prescribed burn in Wayne County in early February. Over the winter, fire managers burn piles of wood in snowy conditions. Winter storms have brought lots of snow to parts of Utah, but the state is still behind in normal snowpack levels. Up until the end of January, snowpack in the state was only 50-60% of normal, according to Great Basin Predictive Services meteorologist Basil Newmerzhycky. He said the situation was looking “dire” until recent winter storms over the last week or so increased Utah’s average snowpack to 80% of normal. As everyone is digging out across northern Utah th...