The “fast moving” storm can lead to the much needed snow through the mountains of Uta-ksl.com

Salt Lake City-the appropriate winter storm has the potential to deliver to a foot from new snow in parts of the mountains of Utah, but its speed will probably prevent parts of the state from receiving the necessary moisture.

A “fast -moving” low pressure system, prepared along the shore of California, will arrive in the northern part of Utah on Friday morning, providing a mix of rain and mountain snow in the valley, said KSL meteorologist Christine van Dyke. It will intensify in the northern half of Juh in the afternoon as its nucleus is shifting into the state.

“After this (rainfall) struck, just know that temperatures will fall quickly and we can even see a little mixing of rain with a slight snow, potentially for our benches,” she said.

The system will begin to break through central jute until Friday night, holding on to the beginning of Saturday night. It is also expected to move to the southern mountains until Saturday morning. Some prolonged mountain showers are possible in the mountain later Saturday, but the greater part of the system will be cleared by Saturday afternoon.

“This system comes in and out of here,” Van Dyke added.

Despite its speed, the storm is predicted to deliver 6-12 inches of snow through the Wasatch mountains, as well as 4-8 inches of snow in the central mountains and 1-3 inches in the southern mountains. KSL Weather models show that Valley communities can get up to an inch snow from the storm, but most places along the Wasatch, Central Utah and Southwest Utah front will be less than that.

You can find full seven -day forecasts for Utah areas online at the KSL meteorological center.

Although not many, it is large for the central and southern snow packages that have slipped this winter. The southwestern Utah Snezhnik, for example, fell to 19% of its average average for this point on Thursday as it fell to a record low in early February, according to the Natural Resources Protection Service. His last big impetus came on the weekend of Thanksgiving.

Much of the Washington Counts and the Iron have also slid into an exceptional drought this week, according to the US land monitor.

The Protection Service has released the terms of the snow packages on Thursday, stating that multiple snow packages in southern Utah are below 50% of the average for this point during the year.

“At this point, many big storms will be needed to return the area,” Jordan Clayton, a hydrologist of the agency, wrote in the update. “It is more like that the moisture levels in the soil in the southwestern Utah are also in a historical minimum, which is likely to adversely affect the magnitude of what it produces from the outflow of the small melting that the region produces.”