Salt Lake City on track for its rainiest October on record
Oct 13, 2025, 11:15 AM | Updated: 3:06 pm
Rain droplets fall into a puddle on a flooded sidewalk outside of the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. (Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News)
(Rio Giancarlo, Deseret News)
SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake City area is close to beating its own record for the rainiest October after receiving a whole lot of rain within the last two weeks.
According to National Weather Service Meteorologist Sam Webber, Salt Lake City received 3.48 inches of rain from Oct. 1 through Oct. 13. That’s more than seven times the average amount of water usually received during that timeframe.
This is also the seventh wettest October on record for the city, and it’s only .43 inches shy of Salt Lake City’s all-time wettest October recorded, which was in 1981.
Webber told KSL NewsRadio there is a good chance the Salt Lake area will break that 44-year-old record this week.
“We’re already almost eight times the normal amount of rain for October, which is .44 inches,” Webber said.
Another storm system is expected to reach Utah bringing a chance of rain to the Wasatch Front from Monday night into Thursday.
“Our forecast is showing right around .62 inches through this event, so that would get us to a record breaking October if we can achieve that rainfall,” Webber said.
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