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KEY MESSAGES

- Mostly clear conditions and near to above normal temperatures will continue well into next week.

- Some patchy overnight fog is possible in the favored valleys especially over eastern Utah where soils remain highly saturated.

DISCUSSION

Issued at 931 PM MST Sat Nov 7 2026

The string of mostly sunny and dry days will stretch well into next week as we continue to dry out from an extraordinary wet and cool end of October. The 08/00Z H500 hand analysis map is showing a tilted Rex block over the West/Southwest. The blocking high in this pattern has forced the jet and any associated moisture well to our North. This ridge will hold strong as it elongates across the Intermountain West to the Central High Plains through early next week. Temperatures will remain on the high side of normal in most areas through this time. The desert valleys...either due to soggy soils or strong low level inversions...will run closer to normal. The inversions and trapped moisture in the planetary boundary layer could lead to some fog in some of the valleys...but this is a low confidence forecast. A northern stream wave dropping out of the Northern Rockies to the High Plains by mid week will force the ridge back to the West. This will have minimal impact to our sensible weather and persistence to our warm and dry forecast continues. The ridge looks to be forced once again back into the Rockies by the end of the week as a closed low replaces it back to the West over eastern Pacific.

AVIATION /12Z TAFS THROUGH 12Z MONDAY/

Issued at 416 AM MST Sun Nov 8 2026

Clear skies, light and terrain-driven winds, and VFR conditions continue to dominate throughout the TAF period.

GJT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES

CO...None. UT...None.