Timber Lakes Weather

This website displays Timber Lakes weather data only.

You can return (or go) to the official Timber Lakes Property Owners website by clicking on the Go to TLPOA tab above.

 

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If you are using Google Chrome, in addition to Google tracking every single website you have visited since Al Gore invented the Internet, you might have to clear your browser cache every time you view the page. Ain’t technology grand?


Caution

The weather data on this site is generated as a hobby from a personal weather station located on the upper mountain on the east side of Timber Lakes. No one should rely on the accuracy of the data or the forecast.


Winter Weather Advisory

A Winter Weather Advisory has been issued for snow in our area by the National Weather Service in Salt Lake City. Be prepared for snow covered roads and limited visibilities, and use caution while driving. This Advisory remains in effect from now until 9:00 pm MDT, Thursday, March 28, 2024. Please be exceedingly careful and continue to monitor for the latest forecasts and additional watches or warnings. Slow down and be cautious.<

Conditions

Conditions are updated approximately every five minutes. You have to press the Reload This Page button above to refresh conditions.




Current Weather

The weather gauges are updated every 30 seconds.
Hover your mouse over a gauge, or tap the gauge on your smartphone, to see a graph of weather data since midnight. A second tap on your smartphone will close the graph.


For more information about these gauges and what they display ==> click here.

Today

Sunrise
Sunset
Daylight Amount (Hours:Minutes)
Sunshine Amount (Hours to 2 decimal places)
Where is the Sun?

Sun Position

This is a graphical representation of the Sun’s current position relative to Timber Lakes — script courtesy of Mark Crossley’s kindness.

Moon Phase
Tonight’s Weather Forecast Dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning. The weather will continue to change for a long, long time. (George Carlin, 1937-2008)
Today’s Weather Fact
Weather Station Software Uptime (Days:Hours:Minutes)


Radar


Forecast

The National Weather Service (NWS) provides a Timber Lakes forecast. Click here for the Timber Lakes Forecast.

The Salt Lake City NWS Office also maintains an excellent website displaying weather watches, warnings, advisories, maps, and other information about various Utah weather-related items. Click here for the SLC NWS Wesbite.


The NWS forecast maps for the next three days:

Forecast Map

Today’s Forecast Map

Forecast Map

Tomorrow’s Forecast Map

Forecast Map

Day 3’s Forecast Map


One-month Precipitation Forecast

At the end of each month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts the next month’s precipitation forecast. Here is their latest guess.








WeatherCam

The WeatherCam is updated every two minutes during daylight hours and is disabled at night. You have to refresh the page to load the most recent picture.
The numbers in parentheses indicate the change in readings from the previous hour.



Daily Movie WeatherCam

Click the play button below to view an approximate 1-minute (or less) time-lapse video of today’s daylight WeatherCam shots. The video is updated hourly beginning one hour before sunrise and ending one hour after sunset. We disable the webcam overnight but you should be in bed then anyway.


Wind Forecast

The Timber Lakes area wind forecast is provided by Windy.com and is based on the the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). ECMWF is an independent intergovernmental organization supported by 34 European countries. Studies show the ECMWF wind forecasts are consistently more accurate than those projected by the National Weather Service. The forecast is for surface wind, which is measured at 30 feet above the surface of the ground. You can either drag the timeline bar along the bottom or click on the play icon to see how the wind forecast varies over the next 3 days.


Air Quality Index

The The World Air Quality Index (WAQI) maps air pollution data from more than 30,000 air quality monitoring stations around the world. The data published by WAQI is real-time and therefore unvalidated at the time of publication. However, data consistency is verified, in real-time, with neighbor stations, allowing automatic detection and removal of defective monitoring stations, if needed, from the map. To view current air quality from the stations closest in proximity to Timber Lakes, click here for the WAQI website map.

This Month and Last




Wildfire Outlook

The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) is the focal point for overseeing all wildfire interagency coordination activities throughout the United States. Wildfire suppression is built on a three-tiered system of support – the local area, one of the 10 geographic areas, and finally, the national level. When a fire is reported, the local agency and its firefighting partners respond. If the fire continues to grow, the agency can ask for help from its geographic area. When a geographic area has exhausted all its resources, it can turn to National Interagency Coordination Center for help in locating what is needed, from air tankers to radios to firefighting crews to incident management teams. The following map is the Center’s most recent one-month outlook of potential wildfire areas compared to normal conditions.


Significant Wildfire Potential

NIFC also maintains a National 7-day Significant Fire Potential map. You can see the most recent wildfire potential map for our area by clicking here. Hover your mouse over the legend (or tap the legend on your smartphone) on the linked map for more detail.

Water – or Lack Thereof

According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, Timber Lakes (and the surrounding area) experienced a significant drought for several years. Our area is currently classified as being Drought Free1. This is the first time in several years our status is not one of the serious drought categories. According to the PRISM Climate Group, the 30-year average annual rainfall for our area is 28.98 inches.2 Our rainfall for the most recent water year (ending September 30, 2023)3 was 43.33 inches,4 the highest amount ever recorded at this weather station. Currently, approximately 27% of the state is in abnormally dry or moderate drought condition. Thank you for conserving potable water.
Please note that per the U.S. Geological Survey, the water year begins on October 1, not January 1.

Annual precipitation in Timber Lakes.

The annual water-year precipitation recorded in Timber Lakes during the past several years demonstrates how far below the 30-year average we are.


This teacup diagram depicts the current status of the reservoirs along the Wasatch Front, including the Bear River Basin, Weber River Basin, and Provo River Basin.5

Northern Utah Reservoir Levels

Northern Utah Reservoir Levels – 2024 Water Year
Information displayed in RED simply means the data for that lake is not as current as the readings for the lakes depicted in BLUE.

Notes:
1 The U.S. Drought Monitor is produced through a partnership between the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and is updated weekly.
2 The PRISM Climate Group at Oregon State University gathers climate observations from a wide range of monitoring networks, applies sophisticated quality control measures, and develops datasets to reveal short- and long-term climate patterns, covering the period from 1895 to the present. At the end of each decade, the average values of temperature and precipitation variables are computed over the preceding 30 years. The current set of 30-year annual normals covers the period 1991-2020. The 30-year-average for our area was retrieved from PRISM through CoCoRaHS on December 2, 2021.
3 As defined by the U.S. Geological Survey, the water year runs from October 1 through September 30.
4 The actual rainfall was measured at one location in Timber Lakes and may not represent every location; your mileage may vary. The water content of snow is measured by melting the snow collected in the rain gauge.
5 Lake and reservoir data provided by the Upper Colorado Region of the Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior. By comparison, Flaming Gorge, in the Uintah Basin, is 85% full and Lake Powell, in southeastern Utah, is 33% full. Locally, Strawberry is 92% full, Currant Creek is at 95%, Soldier Creek is at 92%, and Starvation is at 98%.


Once a month, the US Climate Prediction Center forecasts drought conditions for the following three months. Here is the most recent prediction.

NOAA Seasonal Drought

Seasonal Drought Prediction


Snowpack

The Natural Resources Conservation Service, a department of the United States Department of Agriculture, collects data on Utah’s snowpack. To view their map depicting the amount of water – called the snow water equivalent — in Utah’s snowpack YTD for the water year (starting Oct 1) compared to normal click here.