🎃Your Halloween forecast

Friday, October 30

Hey, Salt Lake! It’s Ali. You get a little extra Halloween this Saturday night. We fall back one hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday.

Have you had it with the biannual clock-changing? So has the Utah Legislature! They just can’t decide if they want to stay in MDT or MST.

First Up: Utah’s Wild Storms

A man uses a raft to access a home in Bluff, Utah, wading through murky floodwaters.

Flooding in the Southeastern Utah town of Bluff. (Amanda Podmore/City Cast Salt Lake)

Pacific hurricanes made for a very wet October; a preview of what Super El Niño could have in store for us this winter. But while some Utahns pray for snow, others are praying for relief.

Your SLC Halloween forecast: It could rain on trick-or-treaters. Two weather systems are rolling in this weekend, bringing scattered showers Friday night and a stronger storm late Saturday. It might snow in the mountains Sunday into Monday morning. [Salt Lake Tribune]
Unrelenting rain broke records in Southern Utah. For perspective, Lake Powell has risen 10 feet in 10 days. Catastrophic flooding has destroyed buildings and displaced people across the Four Corners region, where it’s been the wettest late summer and fall on record. [X, KUTV, Chase Thomason/Facebook]
How you can help: A Navajo Strong supply truck is heading from SLC to Southeastern Utah on Monday, Nov. 2. To help stock it with essentials like diapers, blankets, warm clothing, and food, email leah@navajostrong.org. The Bluff Community Foundation is also raising funds for displaced families. [Navajo Strong]
Northern Utah is not exempt: Heavy rain may have triggered the terrifying rockslide in Provo Canyon, sending some hikers running from boulders on the popular Bridal Veil Falls trail. The trail is closed until spring. [AccuWeather]

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What Salt Lake's Talking About

Utah Files Criminal Charges Against Kalshi

Utah’s attorney general has filed felony charges against Kalshi, alleging that the prediction market promoted gambling in our state, where gambling is illegal. Kalshi has about 4 million active users, 60% are between ages 18 and 34, and a majority are men. [ABC4, CBS News]

Church Donates $3M for Great Salt Lake

In a press release, the Great Salt Lake commissioner confirmed a $3 million donation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to remove invasive, water-guzzling phragmites, a reed grass around the Great Salt Lake. Our namesake is shrinking, threatening ecosystem collapse and toxic dust storms in the Salt Lake Valley. [State of Utah, Utah News Dispatch]

To keep tabs on Great Salt Lake: Use Grow the Flow’s tracker. [Grow the Flow]

A Sundance Program Returns to Utah

$3 million is the number of the week! Stephen Spielberg and Kate Capshaw’s foundation just gifted $3 million to the Sundance Institute. The money will help return the Sundance Director’s Lab program to the Sundance Resort in Provo Canyon. The 2027 Sundance Film Festival, meanwhile, kicks off in January 2027 in Boulder, Colorado. [Salt Lake Tribune]