Changelog

The board had nothing between late June and the September rodeo. Added the city's two free summer series — Concerts in the Park on the second Monday of the month and Movies in the Park on the second and fourth Fridays, with the four films left this year — and the Saturday farmers market at Vernon Worthen Park, each linked to the page it was checked on.

Ten public places in St. George where the heat is easier — the library, the two pools, the rec center, the splash-pad parks and the shaded ones — with what is open at the moment you look. Which kind of relief the page recommends first changes with the hour: at the peak of the afternoon only air conditioning really holds, and by early morning the shaded parks are the better answer and they are free. Neither the city nor the county publishes a list of official cooling centres, so the page says so plainly rather than letting anyone mistake a library for a shelter.

The U.S. Drought Monitor's current category for Washington County, updated every Thursday, with Iron, Kane and Garfield counties alongside for comparison — plus the local numbers behind it: eight inches of rain in an average year, 160 gallons per person per day at home, and the combined capacity of Quail Creek and Sand Hollow. Nobody publishes a live level for either reservoir, so the page says so rather than guessing.

Put in the floor area you cool, where you set the thermostat and roughly what kind of air conditioner you have, and it works out the electricity month by month, with the cooling separated from the rest of the bill. The seasons come from the 1991–2020 weather normals recorded at the St. George station; the prices are the city's residential rate adopted on 16 July 2026, and you can change any of them. It is an estimate, not your bill — and it only applies if the city's utility bills you, since homes south of the Virgin River are on Dixie Power.

The town's new header drawing looks across the red Navajo sandstone bluffs of the Red Hills rising above downtown — the low desert town and the small pale spire of the historic temple at their base, junipers in the foreground, and Pine Valley Mountain faint on the horizon.

Locals know the town gets slammed in the October-to-April snowbird months and on the marathon and Senior Games weekends. Pick a day to see how busy town usually is — and the calmest day to go instead. It's the usual pattern, not a live count.

A new page reads the air over St. George — fine particles, blown desert dust, and in the hot months, ground-level ozone — and says in plain language whether today is a good day to be outside. It updates through the day from a public forecast model, with the Utah Division of Air Quality's Washington County page as the official reading. Useful on windy dust days along I-15 and when wildfire smoke drifts in over the summer.

St. George now has a simple water-use calculator. Type how many people live in your home and how much lawn you water, and it estimates your use in gallons per person a day — the number the water district measures the whole county by — and shows it against the county average and the 2030 conservation goal. It also breaks your use into indoors, lawn and pool, so you can see what moves the number most. It's an estimate from typical figures, not your bill, and it links straight to the lawn-rebate tool if you want to act on it.

Type in how much grass you have to see what the water district's rebate would pay and how much water you'd save, plus how often you should water this month and the summer watering hours.

St. George is live. It opens with two tools: When Can I Be Outside?, which reads the desert heat hour by hour so the workable morning and evening windows are easy to find, and Events This Week, which keeps the area's big races, the Tuacahn season, and the rodeo in one place. More to come — bin-collection by address and a SunTran transit view are the next likely additions.

St. George packs an outsized events calendar into the year, and several weekends fill roads, restaurants, and lodging. This new board gathers the verified annual fixtures in one place: the Tuacahn Amphitheatre summer season in Ivins, the Dixie Round-Up Rodeo in September, the St. George Marathon (50th running, October 3), and the Huntsman World Senior Games in October. Each entry links the page it was checked on; dated events drop off once they pass.

St. George summers are genuinely dangerous — July 2024 averaged a 107.9°F high and the record is 117°F. This new tool reads the hour-by-hour heat on the National Weather Service scale and shows when it is easier or harder to be outside, with the cool morning and evening windows the city's runners, crews, and golfers already work around. It links the official NWS forecast and CDC heat-safety guidance.