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(KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner) Ashlie Jorgensen reads a book with her dog, Cheyenne, in South Ogden on Monday.

Utah sees hottest April temperatures since the 1930s

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 6:12am

OGDEN — The temperature over the weekend reached a high not felt in the state since the mid-1930s.

National Weather Service meteorologist Nanette Hosenfeld said the state is seeing temperatures running 15 to 20 degrees above the average for this time of year.

Sunday broke 17 records, with temperatures reaching 86 degrees, surpassing the previous record of 83 degrees.

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Jennifer Graham poses for a portrait Thursday with her husband, Cory, and their 6-month-old, Scarlett, at McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden. Scarlett stopped breathing and turned blue at the hospital when she was only a few hours old, but using the Cool Cap lowered the baby’s temperature and helped to preserve her brain function. Scarlett is developmentally on track today, her mother says. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

Cap improves survival rate of oxygen-deprived infants

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, February 13, 2012 - 7:18am

OGDEN -- Scarlett Graham entered the world just before 8 a.m. on July 13, 2011, and for the next nine hours, Cory and Jennifer Graham's newest bundle of joy was a happy, healthy newborn. Then Scarlett stopped breathing.

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(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) Students get water from the drinking fountain after recess at Muir Elementary School in Bountiful on Thursday.

Kids, teachers suffer because schools lack AC

Ruth Malan Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 11:54pm

BOUNTIFUL -- Temperatures at Muir Elementary School have taken a toll on teachers as well as students. Some students have had nosebleeds, at least one fainted in a hot classroom and others are complaining of nausea.

The temperature was 88 degrees in Candice Taylor's classroom at 8 a.m. Thursday when she got to school, and by 10 a.m. it was 90 degrees. Afternoon temperatures were higher. The sixth-grade teacher's husband said she comes home drained every day because of the high temperatures in the school.

The sixth-grade classrooms are on the second floor of the building, where crowding in classrooms also adds to the heat. Even with four fans blowing the hot air around, the room stays extremely hot, Taylor said.

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Report shows warmer weather in U.S. since 1970s

Ashlie Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 5:57pm

The new normal is warmer.

That's the assessment of the nation's top weather agency, which releases data Friday that show the 30-year "normal" temperature in the United States.

"The climate of the 2000s is about 1.5 degree Fahrenheit warmer than the 1970s, so we would expect the updated 30-year normals to be warmer," said Thomas R. Karl, director of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. That recent temperature trend was enough to drag the three-decade moving average, from 1981-2010, up by half a degree Fahrenheit from the 1971-2000 period, according to the report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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Weather officials issue flood watches in Utah

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 3:40pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Communities across Utah are preparing for floods as temperatures this week heat up into the 90s and mountain snowpack starts a rapid melt, but officials say previous fears of major damage will likely be avoided.

The National Weather Service has issued flood watches for most of central and northern Utah along stretches of Little Cottonwood Creek, Big Cottonwood Creek, and the Weber, Provo, Duchesne and Bear rivers. Several areas are already above flood stage.

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Scientists study wind farms' effects on temperature, crops

Scripps Howard News Service, Trish Choate Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Thursday, June 23, 2011 - 12:02pm

WASHINGTON -- Wind farms could have the ability to make days a little cooler and nights a little warmer, make crops grow better and shift the course of a storm.

All that might sound like science fiction, but researchers are finding such results in their studies of turbines and wind farms.

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