Apple blossoms in the orchard.
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Salt Lake's wide streets and flat valley floor lend themselves to easy cycling.
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Salt Lake City has a population of about 180,000. The Salt Lake metropolitan area has a population of about 1 million, Glendale is one of the more ethnically diverse parts of Salt Lake City, with many recent immigrants and refugees.
Salt Lake City is situated on the Wasatch Front, the west side of the Wasatch Mountain Range. The populated area of the Wasatch Front stretches 120 miles north to south and and average of five miles east to west. The elevation at the valley floor is 4,300 feet; the mountain peaks rise to nearly 12,000 ft. The latitude is 40°45'N. The Wasatch is on the Colorado Plateau, part of the Rocky Mountains. The geological formation is called "basin and range"; rows of mountains are separated by broad flat valleys.
Due to the mountains, the average annual precipitation is 16" (61" of snow) at the Salt Lake International Airport and 20" (80 to 100" of snow) on the benches (shorelines of a prehistoric lake) by the mountains. This compares to Utah's overall average of 10 inches - which explains why 80% of the population of Utah lives on the Wasatch Front.
Most precipitation is in the form of snow. The wettest months are April and October, with average precipitation of about 2"; July is the driest, at 0.7" of precipitation. The relative humidity ranges from 70-79% in January to 22-52% in July.
Salt Lake City is in USDA Zone 5. The freeze-free period lasts an average of 167 days, from April 30 to October 15. Daily temperatures swing from the sixties to the nineties in the summer and from the twenties to the high thirties in the winter. There are an average of five days over 100°F and two days under 0°F annually. Salt Lake experiences temperature inversions during the winter, trapping smoggy air in the valley. Winds average less than 10 mph year-round.