Utah’s coldest place may hold a key to combating the state’s suffocating inversions

Peter Sinks, one of the coldest places in the Lower 48, might help improve forecasts.

(Brock Marchant | The Salt Lake Tribune) Scientist András Dobos, left, and Utah State University graduate research assistant Tim Wright install a temperature sensor at Peter Sinks in Logan Canyon on July 29, 2026.

Utah’s coldest place may hold a key to combating the state’s suffocating inversions

Peter Sinks, one of the coldest places in the Lower 48, might help improve forecasts.

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