Headline: Deseret News, 10/3/2022
Salt Lake City's official weather data, including precipitation and temperature information, is collected at a station by the Salt Lake City International Airport. That's been the case since 1928, two years before the city renamed the airport from Woodward Field to Salt Lake City Municipal Airport. Federal meteorologists had recorded at a few different downtown locations from 1874 up until 1928.
The airport has grown immensely since 1928, though. Some posted online that concrete and asphalt at the airport today are causing an urban island heat effect, which is boosting the temperature records at the airport.
For its part, meteorologists at the National Weather Service said, yes, temperatures can vary up to about 5 degrees depending on where you are in Salt Lake City; however, the agency contends some of the heat is representative of changes around the city and valley. The county's population has jumped nine times as a result of massive development over the past nine decades, per the U.S. Census Bureau.
There certainly seems to be a lot of concrete and a lack of greenery in downtown Salt Lake City.
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