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No drought for Northern Utah this spring, forecasters say

Last updated Friday, March 16, 2012 - 6:15am

OGDEN — NOAA predicts a drought-free spring for Northern Utah’s Wasatch Front.

But the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in a chart released Thursday, projects that most of central Utah will have drought that persists or intensifies and that, for Southern Utah, a drought is likely to develop.

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Officials: Weber River breach repair holding

Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Sunday, June 19, 2011 - 10:54pm

The breach repair project on the Weber River was completed Saturday and early indications are that the fix is holding, according to a news release from the Utah Department of Public Safety.

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Blair Hancock, owner of Hancock Dairy, LLC, stands in front of 30 acres of field flooded by overflow from the Weber River in Plain City on June 9.

Floods put farmers in fix

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Sunday, June 19, 2011 - 4:45pm

Western Weber County has been called the epicenter of flooding in the state, and farmers and ranchers say they've been in the worst holding pattern of their lives since April.

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(NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner) Skiers prepare to board the lift at Snowbasin.

Skiers: Why not make a run before snow melts into Pineview?

Michael Brice Standard-Examiner correspondent

Last updated Saturday, June 11, 2011 - 9:44pm

HUNTSVILLE -- The calendar says June but it looked more like January Saturday as skiers carved down Middle Bowl at Snowbasin where, for the first time in the resort's history, it opened in June for weekend skiing.

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