Local News Hour | July 21, 2026

Good morning. I'm Leslie Thatcher. 806 on this Tuesday morning. It's July 21st. Let's see. Currently, we have got partly cloudy skies out there.

69 degrees currently in Old Town Park City. Heber City reporting 70 degrees. And on the phone with us from the ABC Forecast Center, it's meteorologist Cedric Haynes. Good morning.

Happy Tuesday, KPCW listeners. It's time for your forecast for the Wasatch back on this Tuesday. As we go throughout today, we are going to be looking at some of that monsoon moisture pushing towards the north. And that's going to give us a pretty good chance of seeing scattered showers and thunderstorms.

Of course, the best chance of these showers and thunderstorms will come this afternoon where we could see some heavy downpours, of course, frequent lightning. And yes, even the potential of some isolated strong wind gusts. But of course, no doubt about it, the greatest threat that we're going to be most concerned about

is that elevated flash flood threat as we go into this afternoon hour. So keep an eye to the sky. Make sure you have a way to get weather notifications just in case. temperatures will climb into the upper 80s to near 90 in Park City for your afternoon hours on

this Tuesday will be in the mid 90s in the Hebrew Valley as we make our way into your Wednesday we're going to keep a really good chance of those scattered showers and thunderstorms in the forecast and an elevated flood threat will continue throughout your Wednesday so again it will be another day where we will need to be weather aware as we go throughout the day temperatures will climb

only into the low 80s in Park City. We'll see those highs only in the upper 80s in the Heber Valley. Once we move towards your Thursday, look for partly cloudy skies. We'll have a chance of a few more isolated showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon hours.

But overall, we'll start to see those rain chances decreasing by your Thursday. Temperatures will be in the mid 80s for highs in Park City. We'll see those highs right around 90 in the Heber Valley. Once we make our way into your Friday, your Pioneer Day, well, it's looking much improved.

How about mostly sunny skies? Just a very slight chance of a shower popping up. But for the most part, it's looking fairly dry. Temperatures start to warm back up. So we'll be seeing those high temperatures back into the upper 80s in Park City. High temperatures will climb back into the lower 90s in the Heber Valley.

As we move into your upcoming weekend, the heat will be back with us upper 80s for your Saturday and Sunday in Park City. With partly cloudy skies and a slight chance of an isolated storm redeveloping the Heber Valley, We're looking at partly cloudy skies with an isolated storm and highs in the mid-90s. That's a look at your latest forecast of the Wasatch.

Back on ABC4 meteorologist Cedric Haynes. Well, stay tuned. Coming up this morning, I'll be checking in with Wasatch County Manager Dustin Graybaugh. No meeting this week, but we'll talk about some of the other issues taking place in the Wasatch County.

Also, unfortunately, Greg Durso, an adaptive mountain biker, unable to join us this morning. but the co-founder of the Kelly Brush Foundation, Kelly Brush, will be calling in with details about a special screening of the film in which Greg is the subject of Best Stay Ever. It's taking place Saturday at Park City Films' Jim Santee Auditorium.

And later on, Recycle Utah Executive Director Andy Heck in with the latest from the Recycling Center. Taking a look at local news now, Wasatch County has a new roadmap to guide its land use and development decisions. KPCW's Grace D'Arthur reports a year and a half of work went into that general plan update. Wasatch County's general plan includes everything from transportation needs to environmental resources to housing strategy.

At a meeting July 15th, council members finalized the first comprehensive update of the document in 25 years. A lot has changed for the community since 2001. The population has more than doubled, housing costs have soared, and the economy's focus has turned to resorts. Assistant Planning Director Austin Quarry said one goal of the update was to make the plan accessible to county residents.

Another was to set policies based on what matters to the community. Those policies that you set should be grounded solidly in values that the community wants to protect. Valuing the county's rural heritage, for instance, might mean a policy of concentrating new growth near existing cities and towns. Corey met with each municipality to discuss how the general plan could affect them.

The county also had open houses, surveys, comment periods, and many meetings over the past year and a half. County manager Dustin Graybaugh said the new document reflects what matters most to residents. I think this is an amazing representation of the community values that Austin and our team has put together over the last 18 months. Corey recommended an annual report so leaders can gauge whether they're meeting the general plan goals and course correct if needed.

He added the county will continue to update the document as it implements the plan. What do you do once you hit that goal? You should go back and readdress the plan and say, well, what's our new goal then? Not leave the plan saying we did it already.

To learn more about the county's new general plan, visit kpcw.org. Grace Dorfler, KPCW News. Basin Recreation plans to ask voters to approve up to $150 million in new debt to triple its fitness offerings with two new buildings.

KPCW's Connor Thomas has more on that. The two field houses Basin Rec is proposing to build will have rock climbing and aquatics facilities, but not just that. The Recreation District has published draft floor plans while it waits for the Summit County Council to put a property tax bond question on the November ballot.

Voters will be asked to approve up to $150 million in bonds to pay for the new buildings.